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Asset Recovery Office (Police) Germany –

Functions and Possibilities

Jürgen Schmitt

Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden

(Federal Criminal Police Office)

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Table of contents

Organization of German police

Work of the BKA – Asset Recovery Unit (POLICE-ARO Germany)

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Fundamental principle:

• The Federal States (Länder) are in charge of police

matters

Exceptions:

• Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt)

• Federal Police (Bundespolizei)

• Police at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag)

• Special role: Inspector of the auxiliary police forces (Bereitschaftspolizei) in the Federal States

Organization of German police

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Stuttgart Munich

Kiel

Rampe

Berlin

Eberswalde

Magdeburg

Dresden

Erfurt

Hamburg

Bremen

Hannover

WiesbadenMain

z

Düsseldorf

Saarbrücken

BKA

BKA

BKA

Wiesbaden

Meckenheim

Berlin

State Criminal Police Offices

Organisation of German police

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Functions of the Bundeskriminalamt

Central agency

International co-operation

Criminal prosecution (in certain areas)

Warding off dangers arising from international terrorism

Protection of members of the consititutional bodies

Witness protection

Organisation of German police

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Functions of BKA SO 35 –

Asset Recovery Unit

Support of BKA-investigations in terms of asset tracing and asset freezing

Principle issues

Correspondence with foreign police offices

Work of the BKA – Asset Recovery Unit

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SO 35 - The Service Unit: „confiscation of assets as an integral part of investigative proceedings“

•Advice concerning specific legal actions and tactics

•Asset tracing in Germany and foreign countries

•Initiation and enforcing provisional asset confiscation

•Supervision of asset confiscation until final sentence

Support of BKA - investigations

Work of the BKA – Asset Recovery Unit

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Principle Issues:

national and international committees

annual statistics

education and training

correspondence with theministry of the interior

Work of the BKA – Asset Recovery Unit

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Requests from and to foreign countries for purpose of asset tracing and freezing

Interpol Europol Liaison - Officers Carin-Contact-Point Central authority on basis of

Council of Europe Convention No.

141

Correspondence with foreign police offices

Work of the BKA–Asset Recovery Unit

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Work of the BKA–Asset RecoveryUnit

EU-Decision 2007/845/JHA dated on 06.12.2007 (Implementation of Asset Recovery Offices):

„Bundeskriminalamt - SO 35“ is nominated as German ARO (Police)

„Bundesamt für Justiz“ is nominated asGerman ARO (Justice)

(Both since 14th of July 2009)

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Bank Bank account account registerregister

Other Financial services companies

Material Material assetsassets

InsurancesInsurances Tax Tax informationinformation

Real estatesReal estates

Informations about Informations about companiescompanies

Access to Access to Databases / Databases / contact contact pointspoints

Work of the BKA – Asset Recovery Unit

Possible areas of asset tracing / support:

Police Informations

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Contact:

www.bka.de

SO35@bka.bund.de

+49 611 55 -14260 or -16155