The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in partnership with the
Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, GIABA,
on December 11, 2017 commenced a four-day training for operatives of the
anti-graft agency, aimed at sharpening their skills in the area of assets
recovery.
The
training which, has as its theme, “Training on Asset Investigation, Management
and Recovery”, according to Babashani Sanda, Head, Legal Studies Unit EFCC
Academy, was unique.
“The
aim of the training, is to expose the Commission’s investigators on best
international techniques on tracing, identifying, recovery and management of
assets recognized as proceeds of crimes such as money laundering, terrorist
financing among others”, he said.
“We are set to permanently seize more
properties suspected to have been acquired with proceeds of crime even without
necessarily prosecuting the owners or possessors of such properties in the law
courts.
“The
participants will be trained on new methods of asset seizure by exposing them
to some very important provisions of our laws especially in Section 17 of the
AFF Act, 2006 which has elements of non-conviction based forfeiture,” he added.
Some
of the ongoing GIABA sponsored trainings for staff of the EFCC include; “The
Use of Microsoft Excel for Data Analysis”, “Investigative Interviewing and
Evidence Evaluation in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism
Cases”, “Forensic Accounting and Investigation”.
The
Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering (GIABA) is an
institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
responsible for facilitating the adoption and implementation of Anti-Money
Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) in West Africa.
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