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The IMB aware of the escalating level of this criminal activity, wanted to provide a free service to the seafarer and established the 24 hour IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A newsletter about fraud and global asset recovery from the office of International Chamber of Commerce's FraudNet. To read about key asset recovery cases and global compliance with anti-fraud and money-laundering laws, please click in the link above for the Newsletter PDF.
CCS offers a flexible membership arrangement based on the selection of predetermined membership packages. A prospective member can elect to join one or more Bureaux according to their requirements.
Losses due to official misconduct account for a great many maritime trade incidents. Each incident can be complex and wide-ranging in nature. It is therefore unlikely that any one company will have the knowledge and resources to be able to investigate it thoroughly.
Counterfeiting and piracy are a drain on our businesses and on the global economy. It has resulted in the widespread loss of lawful employment and a massive reduction of tax revenues.
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FraudNet is a network of attorneys at law set up at the beginning of 2004 under the umbrella of the International Chamber of Industry and Commerce (ICC) in Paris who have specialised in combating white-collar crime. FraudNet is under the Commercial Crime Services of ICC in London.
The purpose that ICC pursued in setting up FraudNet was not only to prevent white-collar crime, but also to provide its members who have suffered damages with experts who effectively support them in recovering the assets they have been deprived of anywhere in the world and asserting claims to compensation for damage. Their anti-fraud specialists not only work for governments, banks, companies and businesspersons, but also for private persons who have suffered damage. Their mission is helping the victims of white-collar crime and their special field is hunting stolen assets abroad and returning them to the owners: 50 specialised attorneys all over the world have
joined forces in Fraudnet in 43 countries to combat fraud and corruption.
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The Worldwide recession has caused economies to collapse, fraud seems one of the only industries unaffected by the crisis. Bernard Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Barry Tannenbaum; were all involved in major frauds within the last six months, with damages as high as US$ 50 billion.
A problem that should be for the criminal authorities has great influence on the day to day work of insolvency practitioners, appointed as liquidators in fraud cases, or assisting victims of fraud in their struggle for restitution. Alex King (||Australia||, Chair), Andrew Weissmann (||USA||), Anthony Akiwumi (Cayman Islands) and ||Bernd Klose|| (||Germany||) all discussed backgrounds and strategies to fight fraud, tracing and locating assets, and returning them to the victims in the 2009 INSOL Conference, Vancouver.
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The next meeting will take place in Prague from 1st - 2nd May. Further details and a draft programme will be available for members in the near future.
The Autumn meeting and conference will take place in Munich from 2nd - 3rd October 2009
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New members for ||Austria||, ||Ukraine|| and ||Hong Kong|| have recently been added to the network.
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