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1 Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden - Asset Recovery Unit SO 35
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
+49 611 55 -14260 or -16155