International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR)

The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) is dedicated to strengthening and supporting the capacities of developing and transition countries to recover stolen public assets.

Their global network and team of asset recovery specialists is made up of former prosecutors, lawyers and financial investigators. Flexible and fast-moving, ICAR is uniquely placed to provide hands-on support to partner agencies across the world in tackling complex financial crime schemes.

The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance works with countries around the world to strengthen their capacities to recover illicit assets.

We place particular emphasis on hands-on mentoring on investigation methods and confiscation and prosecution strategies, as well as international cooperation. The aim is two-fold: to build capacity and effectively progress cases to the stage of recovery.

We also:

• support legislative and institutional reform processes;
• develop and deliver tailor-made training;
• work with other international organisations to advance innovation and global policy dialogue on asset recovery.

Our team is made up of former prosecutors, lawyers and (financial) investigators from a wide variety of countries and legal traditions. We don’t speak from text books, but from practice. And we pride ourselves on being driven by, and responding flexibly to, the needs of our partner countries – because there is never a one-size-fits-all solution to asset recovery.