Laura WilesThe Serious Fraud Office is set to host the International Economic Crime Conference in May, alongside France’s Parquet National Financier and Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General.
The three organisations are founding members of the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce, which launched last year.
The conference will assemble over 70 practitioners from global economic crime agencies to share best practice, practical insights and innovative approaches for tackling complex international fraud, bribery and corruption cases. There will be sessions on:
- Case detection;
- Conducting joint and parallel investigations;
- Obtaining international assistance: evidence and asset restraint or freezing;
- Cryptocurrency: asset tracing, obtaining information from exchanges, and modalities of cryptocurrency fraud;
- Use of co-operators or assisting offenders;
- Prosecuting corporates: liability, co-operation and non-trial resolutions; and
- Non-conviction-based asset recovery.
The event will be followed by the UK’s Illicit Finance Summit in June.