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

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 , EU Twinning Project on Financal Sources of Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Project Completed, 2007 Proceeds of Crime Unit established Financial Investigator Training program started ( 171), recruitment policy changed

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

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Assets subject to recovery 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the facilitation of the tracing and identification of proceeds of crime and other crime related property which may become the object of a freezing, seizure or confiscation order «Proceeds of crime and other crime related property», «assets» are listed in Criminal Law Articles 54, 55: -Material benefits; -Obtained through the commission of a crime: -Constituting the subject of a crime -Provided for the commission of a crime -Economic proceeds obtained by the investment or conversion of material benefits -Properties used in or allocated for commission of a deliberate offence

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.

Identification & Tracing of Assets -Similar methods to identify -Tracing of financial evidence is burdensome -Too many institutions -Some databases don’t exist -No access to most of the databases -Time consuming written correspondence, problems in compilation & analysis of data -No access to STRs

Facilitation of Identification & Tracing of Assets 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the facilitation of the tracing and identification of proceeds of crime and other crime related property which may become the object of a freezing, seizure or confiscation order

Facilitation of Identification & Tracing of Assets Legal problems concerning confiscation & seizure should be addressed ARO Authorization process should be completed Access to information problems should be solved.

Thank You, M.Murat YAŞAR,