About this Event
15 Oct 2009 @ 12:00
Justice Conference on the Fight Against Serious Forms of Organised Crime, Corruption and Financial Crime in the EU and at the International Level.
The conference began at 12.00pm and concluded at 14:30pm.
Gary Leong, Deputy Head of the Anti-Corruption, Proceeds of Crime and Specialist Cases Unit in the Serious Fraud Office (UK), spoke at the IIEA on the fight against corruption in the EU and at the international level from a UK perspective;
Rob Wainwright, newly appointed Director of Europol, spoke on Europol's role in the fight against organised crime, fraud and money laundering in the Europe; and
Det. Chief Superintendent Pat Byrne, newly appointed Chief Bureau Officer of the Criminal Assets Bureau, Ireland, discussed the Irish perspective on the future for European law enforcement agencies in the fight against organised crime.
The Institute will be delighted to hear these speakers' comments on the fight against serious crime as they are of particular benefit to our continuing research on Justice and Home Affairs Policy.
About the speakers:
Gary Leong is Deputy Head of Operations with responsibility for anti-corruption, proceeds of crime and specialist cases within the Serious Fraud Office, UK. He has over eighteen years experience with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Customs & Excise Prosecution Office and the Serious Fraud Office. He has extensive experience of conducting and supervising investigations and prosecutions of economic crime, organised crime, excise and revenue frauds, and corruption. He is also a Specialist in Restraint and Confiscation issues and trains on restraint and confiscation, fraud offences, disclosure, money laundering, and computer related crime.
He discussed the nature of the SFO; the UK model for asset tracing and the tracing of proceeds of crime; and the approach of the SFO for dealing with overseas corruption, asset recovery and confiscation activity.
Rob Wainwright was appointed Director of Europol in April 2009. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Head of the UK Liaison Bureau at Europol and he also managed the Europol National Unit in London. The Liaison Bureaux are a key link in Europol's cooperation with the EU Member States. In 2003, he was promoted to the position of Director International of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) where he was responsible for its international operations and for developing and implementing the UK strategy against facilitated illegal immigration. From 2006 onwards, he was Chief of the International Department of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and he oversaw 20,000 law enforcement cases each year as well as establishing the international strategy and operational capabilities of the newly formed agency.
Det. Chief Superintendent Pat Byrne is the newly appointed Chief Bureau Officer of the Criminal Assets Bureau, Ireland (appointed on 2 October 2009). He has a long record of involvement in key investigations into major criminal gangs in Ireland, having previously been assigned to both CAB and the Garda National Drugs Unit (GNDU).
CAB's statutory remit is to carry out investigations into the suspected proceeds of criminal conduct. It identifies assets of persons, which derive or are suspected to derive directly or indirectly from criminal conduct. It adopts a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary partnership approach in its investigations and it works closely with international crime investigation agencies. It also works with international bodies such as the European Commission and CARIN, an informal network of law enforcement agencies.
