Editorial

Indians Have Stashed Over $500 Bn Abroad

Press Trust of India (PTI) - 02/13/2012
An estimated $500 billion (nearly Rs 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money of Indians is deposited in tax havens abroad, CBI Director A P Singh disclosed in New Delhi on Monday. Speaking at the...read more

SDNY asset forfeiture chief talks synergy, fraud and best practices

David Quinones - 04/25/2011
Sharon Cohen Levin has been chief of the Asset Forfeiture* Unit in the Southern District of New York for 15 years, but now, more than ever, her office's unit is under pressure to show results. She...read more

The range and type of information sources available to office holders in asset tracing and recovery

Felicity Toube QC - 04/13/2011
Office-holders in asset tracing and recovery efforts in the United Kingdom and Europe have numerous tools at their disposal to hunt the undisclosed wealth of targets. In this excerpt from...read more

Madoff trustee: ‘Willfully blind’ Mets owners benefited from returns and must return $1 billion

David Quinones - 02/17/2011
Irving Picard, the trustee in the Bernard Madoff fraud case, is using the principle of "willful blindness*," an oft-used weapon in money laundering cases, to pursue the recovery of money from third...read more

Swiss law may make returning frozen Mubarak assets to Egypt difficult

David Quinones - 02/11/2011
With today's news that Switzerland has frozen suspected assets of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak – who stepped down Friday after weeks of protest – pressure is likely to mount to return...read more

Pro basketball team targeted by Stanford receiver for ‘promotional’ payments

David Quinones - 01/26/2011
In a new year in which several new third-party sources for recovery have already emerged in the multi-billion dollar civil fraud case against R. Allen Stanford, the court-appointed receiver* has...read more

Welcome to the New IAARonline.org

David Quinones - 11/01/2010
Learning isn't what it used to be. Once, you got your training in classrooms and your news via dead trees. If the local newspaper didn't cover the topics that interested you, that was tough luck. Too...read more

Increase in Candidates for CSAR Exam as IAAR Provides Newly-Minted Study Guide

David Quinones - 10/20/2010
With days to go before the first Certified Specialist in Asset Recovery* certification exam is offered at the IAAR annual conference in Las Vegas, a growing number of diverse persons in the public...read more

Creating an Asset Recovery Unit: Principles to Build By

John J. Murphy - 10/12/2010
As you consider the prospect of building an asset recovery* unit, it is important to focus on two areas: the people and the process. In order to be effective, you need the right people executing the...read more

Second Generation Mortgage Frauds as Ripe for Recovery as First

David Quinones - 10/08/2010
With a spate of recent lawsuits, charges and investigations being volleyed, financial institutions, government agencies and private parties have ample opportunities to recover assets in the wake of...read more

The Good News About Fraudulent Transfers

Joe H. Dickerson - 02/03/2010
When fraudulent transfers are found, it can be good news for a judgment-enforcement case. Obtaining documentation of the debtor's transfer of assets becomes the very evidence needed to recover those...read more

In international asset recovery, winning in court is only half the battle

Mary Spicuzza - 11/03/2009
It seems logical that, when trying to recover assets overseas, a lawyer may file a lawsuit hoping to get a judgment quickly, then trace the assets overseas and attempt to collect them.And that's a...read more