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Asset Recovery Process in Turkiye

Asset Recovery Process in Turkiye. M.Murat YAŞAR, Phd, Police Chief 14-15 December 2011, Ankara TAIEX Seminar on Asset Recovery Offices. Chronology of Asset Recovery in Turkiye.

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Asset Recovery Process in Turkiye

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  1. Asset Recovery Process in Turkiye M.Murat YAŞAR, Phd, Police Chief 14-15 December 2011, Ankara TAIEX Seminar on Asset Recovery Offices

  2. Chronology of Asset Recovery in Turkiye • 2005 Criminal Law containing asset recovery provisions and Criminal Porocedure Law containing securing & seizure of assets subject to recovery comes into force • 2005-2007, EU Twinning Project on Financal Sources of Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Project Completed, • 2007 Proceeds of Crime Unit established • 2009 Financial Investigator Training program started (171), recruitment policy changed

  3. Chronology of Asset Recovery in Turkiye • Turkey promises to adopt 2007/845/JHA, Coordination by Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Free Movement of Capital Chapter • 2010 MOJ; Ministry of Interior(MOI), Ministry of Finance (MOF) 2 Interministrial Meetings • 2010 TAIEX Seminar on Asset Recovery; MOJ, MOI, MOF, Italian, German and Spanish experts • 2011 Financial Crimes and Proceeds of Crime Division established • 2011 MOI becomes a CARIN member

  4. EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ Gayrimenkul ve Araç İstatistikleri Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü 4

  5. EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ Nakit Para İstatistikleri Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü 5

  6. EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ Kıymetli Evrak İstatistikleri Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü 6

  7. Assets subject to recovery • 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the facilitation of thetracing and identification of proceeds of crime and other crimerelated propertywhichmaybecometheobject of a freezing, seizureorconfiscationorder • «Proceeds of crime and other crimerelated property», «assets» arelisted in CriminalLawArticles 54, 55: • Material benefits; • Obtained through the commission of a crime: • Constituting the subject of a crime • Provided for the commission of acrime • Economic proceeds obtained by the investment or conversion of materialbenefits • Propertiesused in orallocatedforcommission of a deliberateoffence

  8. Identification & Tracing of Assets • General principles: • Criminal asset confiscation: No civil forfeiture • No extended criminal asset confiscation “In dubio pro reo”: No reversal of or sharing the burden of proof • No special provision in Criminal Procedure Law • Identification methods • Physical & electronic search • Physical & electronic surveillance • Wiretapping • Undercover Officers • Financial Documentation, etc.

  9. Identification & Tracing of Assets • Similarmethodstoidentify • Tracing of financialevidence is burdensome • Toomanyinstitutions • Somedatabasesdon’texist • No accesstomost of thedatabases • Time consumingwrittencorrespondence, problems in compilation & analysis of data • No accesstoSTRs

  10. Facilitation of Identification & Tracing of Assets • 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the facilitation of thetracing and identification of proceeds of crime and other crimerelated property whichmaybecometheobject of a freezing, seizureorconfiscationorder

  11. Facilitation of Identification & Tracing of Assets • Legal problemsconcerningconfiscation & seizureshould be addressed • ARO Authorizationprocessshould be completed • Access toinformationproblemsshould be solved.

  12. ThankYou, • M.Murat YAŞAR, • myasar@kom.gov.tr

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