EJTN Criminal Justice Seminar Economic Crimes: Asset Recovery & Confiscation in the EU London, 24 November 2016

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1 EJTN Criminal Justice Seminar Economic Crimes: Asset Recovery & Confiscation in the EU London, 24 November 2016 Burkhard Mühl Senior Specialist, Europol Criminal Assets Bureau

2 EUROPOL S HQ THE HAGUE, NL

3 EUROPOL S MISSION STATEMENT MISSION Vision As the EU law enforcement agency, Europol supports its Member States in preventing and combating all forms of international serious crime and terrorism. To contribute to a safer Europe by providing the best possible support to law enforcement authorities in the Member States.

4 KEY CAPABILITIES- INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION EXCHANGE Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA): Communication tool Europol National Units (ENU) in Member States & non-eu states MS/TP Liaison Bureaux at Europol Only means to exchange personal data EIS (Europol Information System) : Automatic Hits and linking Direct access and data entry by member states Analytical Work Files / Focal Points Data protection and data security

5 Operation Cedar

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7 Operation Vendredi 13 Logo : Mr Jean Jullien

8 Asset Recovery - EU legislative framework 6 EU instruments aim at ensuring a common approach to seizure and confiscation: 2001/500/JHA on money laundering, asset freezing and confiscation; Framework Decisions 2003/577/JHA on the mutual recognition of freezing orders; 2005/212/JHA on extended confiscation Directive OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the European Union (2014/42/EU) Council Decisions 2006/783/JHA on the mutual recognition of 2007/845/JHA confiscation on orders Asset Recovery Offices

9 ASSET RECOVERY IN THE EU / TRANSLATING POLICY INTO ACTION

10 Current Initiatives Directive 2014/42/EU on freezing and confiscation of the proceeds of crime continued discussion on NCBC Exchange of best practices between the EU Asset Recovery Offices in the ARO Platform ARO peer review Asset management and the reuse of confiscated assets Freezing and management of virtual currencies Enhanced global co-operation to recover criminal assets via regional CARIN styled Asset Recovery Networks

11 Europol Criminal Assets Bureau - ECAB

12 Europol Criminal Assets Bureau Established in 2007 To increase the efficiency of asset recovery in the EU with a view to fight international serious and organised crime To provide support to all mandated crime areas in order to identify and seize/freeze criminal assets To assist Member States investigators in tracing criminal assets located outside their

13 Products and services FP Asset Recovery supports competent authorities (AROs et.al.)in tracing and identification of criminal proceeds linked to all mandated crime areas of Europol. CARIN Network Secretariat Europol provides a specialist for the CARIN Secretariat. Knowledge of variations in systems and approaches in jurisdictions to freeze & seize assets. Support in freezing of bank accounts & virtual currencies. Ability to trace assets on a global 13

14 Europol s Operational Analysis Core objective supporting MS investigations with intelligence analysis Who are the key persons and associates? What are their criminal activities? Why are they doing it in this way? Where are the activities located? How are those activities carried out? 14

15 FP Asset Recovery Data suitable for analysis (financial investigations): Persons Communications Bank accounts Id documents Locations Organisations As for any investigation but with focus on money flows and economic/financial aspects 15

16 CROSS - CHECKING

17 Ukraine Crisis (sanitized data) 17

18 Asset tracing via AROs using SIENA

19 4000 ARO to ARO Siena asset tracing requests Messages exchanged per year New cases initiated per year

20 Cape Verde Guernsey Isle of Man Gibraltar Jersey France Netherlands Belgium Luxemburg Switzerland Monaco Tunesia Czech Republic Austria Slovenia Croatia Serbia Montenegro Kosovo Bulgaria Macedonia Albania Malta Slovakia Hungaria Bosnia-Herzegovina Moldawia Romania Cyprus Rwanda Lesotho Burundi Lebanon Israel Swaziland Jordan Syria Georgia Armenia Djibouti Azerbaijan Kuwait Usbekistan Tadschikistan Kirgistan Brunei Timor-Leste RRAG CARIN ARIN-AP ARIN-EA ARIN-SA ARIN-WA Tentative member Greenland Iceland Russia Sweden Finnland Canada Norway Estonia United Kingdom Denmark Latvia Lithuania Ireland Germany Poland Belarus Ukraine Kazakhstan Mongolia USA Portugal Spain Italy Greece Turkey Turkmenistan North Korea Marocco Iraq Iran Afghanistan China South Korea Japan Mexico Cuba Haiti Dominican Republic Belize Jamaica Puerto Rico Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua Trinidad Costa Rica Panama Venezuela Guyana French-Guayana Columbia Surinam West Sahara Senegal Gambia Guinea-Bissau Mauretania Sierra Leone Guinea Liberia Mali Algeria Burkina Faso Benin Ivory Coast Ghana Togo Niger Nigeria Cameroon Libya Chad Central Africa Egypt Sudan South Sudan Eritrea Ethiopia Saudi-Arabia Yemen Somalia Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh India Myanmar Laos Thailand Vietnam Cambodia Sri Lanka Malaysia Chinese Taipei Philippines Ecuador Gabon Congo DRC Uganda Kenya Tanzania Papua-New Guinea Peru Bolivia Paraguay Brazil Angola Malawi Zambia Mozambique Madagascar Namibia Zimbabwe Botswana South Africa Mauritius Australia Argentina Uruguay Chile New Zealand

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22 Availability of data 25 out of 28 EU MS replied Seizures and Freezing Data 21 out of 22 AROs Confiscation Data 15 out of 22 AROs

23 Conclusions Project OCP s estimates - illicit markets generate about 109 billion at EU level, (Savona & Riccardi, 2015). Seizure/Freezing billion p.a. 2.2% of estimated proceeds of crime at EU level Confiscation 1.2 billion p.a. 1.1% of estimated proceeds of crime at EU level From seizure/freezing to confiscation Round 50 % at EU level per year Crime stilly pays in the European Union

24 Thank you very much for your kind attention! Burkhard Mühl, MA Project Manager Europol Criminal Assets Bureau