United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Central America and the Caribbean

UNODC facilitates the "Specialized Workshop on Asset Declarations Auditing Techniques" for officials of Grenada and Belize

From 13 to 14 December 2017, the Regional Anticorruption Academy for Central America and the Caribbean (ARAC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) facilitated the "Specialized Workshop on Asset Declarations Auditing Techniques" for officials of Grenada and Belize, in Saint George, Grenada.

The training was tailored and delivered considering Caribbean legislation.  It focused on enhancing the capacity of compliance officers, auditors and prosecutors to flag illicit enrichment through the analysis of assets declarations and patrimonial investigations.

For this purpose, presentations were delivered on the different asset declarations systems and the rationale behind them, instructions to investigative accounting concepts, usual and unusual financial patterns, net worth analysis, as well as the matrix approach and sources of information. Participants acquired specific skills through hands-on practical exercises that required them to reconstruct specific financial positions and to deliver findings on specific suspicious scenarios.

The workshop was provided by Mr. Tim Steel, Senior Anti-Corruption Adviser of UNODC, with the support of Ms. Virginia de Abajo Marqués, Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser of UNODC and was attendedby eighteen (18) officials from Grenada and Belize.