Anticorruption Series Financial Investigations Course (IRS): Session 3 (Aug 22-26,2022)

Published August 26, 2022

From August 22 - 26, 2022, ILEA Bangkok together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) held a five-day Financial Investigations Course in Bangkok, Thailand. During this highly interactive course, participants explored methods on how to follow money trails, identify confiscated assets, and techniques on how to calculate illegal proceeds. The instructors facilitated the training and engaged in group discussions with participants to draw upon their prior knowledge and show them how to apply the new training to future financial investigations. Furthermore, participants learned the international standards from the United Nations Financial Action Task Force, and other inter-governmental bodies. The training included classroom lectures, group discussions, investigative studies, practical exercises, problem solving scenarios and role plays. This course benefitted 24 participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand serving as criminal investigators, tax enforcement officials, and government prosecutors in combating serious financial crimes.