IAAR Media Alerts
Former-UBS prosecutor to speak at IAAR Conference about removing silos in financial crime. Read More.
Bernard Madoff liquidation team offers lessons for asset recovery* professionals. Read More.
Money flow lessons learned from Osama bin Laden data haul will get prime focus at IAAR Annual conference. Read More.
Institute for Credentialing Excellence calls professional certifications valuable 'asset' in careers. Read more.
Expert will give roadmap to recovering national treasures stolen by corrupt Middle East-North Africa officials and cronies. Read more.
Landmark Credential for Our Times Arrives on British Shores This June; Will Help Train Asset Recovery* Professionals to Win the Endgame of Financial Crime. Read more.
IAAR announced that an inaugural group of forensic, investigative and legal professionals have earned the Certified Specialists in Asset Recovery* (CSARs) credential for having passed a rigorous examination and met other qualifications. Read more.
The International Association of Insurance Receivers (IAIR) and the International Association for Asset Recovery* (IAAR) today announced a landmark partnership that is aimed at helping insurance receivers and insurance regulators and investigators improve their skill and credentials in recovering fraud proceeds. Read more.
For First Time Ever, CSAR Certification Marks Out Asset Recovery* as Area of Certifiable Special Skills. Read more.
October 8, 2009
World experts show secrets of recovering assets at the 2009 Conference of the International Association for Asset Recovery
*, November 9-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Global organization that targets criminal assets expands reach beyond law enforcement to include private sector institutions and firms that seek asset recovery
*.
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July 14, 2009
Think It's Only Tax Evaders Hiding Behind UBS? Better Think Again. AssetRecoveryWatch.com Publisher Charles A. Intriago warns that the "culture of criminality" fostered by the giant Swiss bank makes it likely that billions of dollars in the proceeds of crime are now hidden in secret accounts at UBS.
June 1st, 2009
A new organization, the International Association for Asset Recovery
*, for the first time will bring together the frontline of the nation's defenses against crime to improve their skills in taking back the trillions of dollars that criminal organizations earn in the United States and worldwide from crime.
April 14, 2009
Experts form group to train and certify law enforcement officers on winning back the proceeds of crime International Association for Asset Recovery
* will offer job-related tools, forums and clearinghouse.
February 18, 2009
Groundbreaking Conference Aims to Reverse Tiny Financial Risk Criminals Face.
IAAR in the News
Federal prosecutors last week persuaded a judge to stop a group of Bernard L. Madoff’s victims from using an involuntary bankruptcy* filing to claim more than $100 million of his personal assets.
By Charles A. Intriago and Robert A. Butterworth
Miami Herald, published: December 05, 2009
Rothstein's aura of wealth, power fed ego and scheme. Fort Lauderdale attorney
* Scott Rothstein capitalized on an aura of power, money and generosity to feed both his craving for the limelight and his $1 billion-plus Ponzi scheme
*.
Miami Herald, published: August 27, 2009
Edward Davis, Jr., IAAR Advisory Board member, weighs in on the implications of the plea agreement reached between James Davis and prosecutors. James Davis, former chief financial officer for the Allen Stanford financial empire deals a serious blow against Stanford with his decision to cooperate with authorities.
Miami Herald Op-Ed, published: August 25, 2009
IAAR president Charles A. Intriago, a former federal prosecutor, discusses the shortcomings of the deal between the US and Swiss governments and banking giant UBS in this Op-Ed published in the Miami Herald.
Forbes.com, published: August 9, 2009
More overseas tax havens could turn into traps for tax cheats as the U.S.-Swiss settlement over UBS AG invigorates an international campaign to flush out hideaways for illicit or undisclosed money. Charles Intriago weighs in on international secrecy havens and UBS' conduct.
My San Antonio News, published: July 31, 2009
"Seizing and confiscating criminal assets is the single most effective way of disrupting criminal organizations and shutting them down," says Charles Intriago in this article about a Texas borderland drug gangster known as Double Zero who sits in federal prison while a treasure chest of his gold and diamond-encrusted bling is about to be set free.
