Asset Recovery
Process in Turkiye
M.Murat YAŞAR, Phd, Police Chief
14-15 December 2011, Ankara
TAIEX Seminar on Asset Recovery Offices
Chronology of Asset Recovery in
Turkiye
• 2005 Criminal Law containing asset recovery provisions
and Criminal Porocedure Law containing securing &
seizure of assets subject to recovery comes into force
• 2005-2007, EU Twinning Project on Financal Sources of
Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Project
Completed,
• 2007 Proceeds of Crime Unit established
• 2009 Financial Investigator Training program started
(171), recruitment policy changed
Chronology of Asset Recovery in
Turkiye
• Turkey promises to adopt 2007/845/JHA, Coordination by
Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Free Movement of Capital
Chapter
• 2010 MOJ; Ministry of Interior(MOI), Ministry of Finance
(MOF) 2 Interministrial Meetings
• 2010 TAIEX Seminar on Asset Recovery; MOJ, MOI, MOF,
Italian, German and Spanish experts
• 2011 Financial Crimes and Proceeds of Crime Division
established
• 2011 MOI becomes a CARIN member
EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ
Gayrimenkul ve Araç İstatistikleri
SUÇ TÜRLERİ
Mali S. Kaynaklı
El Koyma
ARSA
DAİRE
ARAÇ
TOPLAM
1
7
31
38
228
228
Narkotik S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
Organize S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
1
11
8
30
Kaçakçılık S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
2
19
312
323
Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube
Müdürlüğü
4
EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ
Nakit Para İstatistikleri
SUÇ TÜRLERİ
TL
EURO
Dolar
TOPLAM
26.488
71.109
7.990.894
191.505
2.484.595
555.571
Mali S. Kaynaklı
El Koyma
7.893.297
Narkotik S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
1.063.324 1.229.766
Organize S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
199.930
42.820
312.821
Kaçakçılık S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
215.835
15.707
4.157
235.799
Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube
Müdürlüğü
5
EL KOYMA İSTATİSTİKLERİ
Kıymetli Evrak İstatistikleri
SUÇ TÜRLERİ
ÇEK
Mali S. Kaynaklı
El Koyma
Narkotik S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
200.000
Organize S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
519.700
BONO
ŞİRKET /
Hisse
TOPLAM
673.001
1.600.000 2.239.665
6.982.301
247.500 7.229.801
Kaçakçılık S. Kaynaklı El
Koyma
Mali Suçlar ve Suç Gelirleriyle Mücadele Şube
Müdürlüğü
6
Assets subject to recovery
• 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the facilitation of
the tracing and identification of proceeds of crime and
other crime related property which may become the
object of a freezing, seizure or confiscation order
• «Proceeds of crime and other crime related property»,
«assets» are listed in Criminal Law Articles 54, 55:
- Material benefits;
- Obtained through the commission of a crime:
- Constituting the subject of a crime
- Provided for the commission of a crime
- Economic proceeds obtained by the investment or
conversion of material benefits
- Properties used in or allocated for commission of a
deliberate offence
Identification & Tracing of Assets
- General principles:
- Criminal asset confiscation: No civil forfeiture
- No extended criminal asset confiscation “In dubio pro
reo”: No reversal of or sharing the burden of proof
- No special provision in Criminal Procedure Law
- Identification methods
-
Physical & electronic search
Physical & electronic surveillance
Wiretapping
Undercover Officers
Financial Documentation, etc.
Identification & Tracing of Assets
- Similar methods to identify
- Tracing of financial evidence is burdensome
-
Too many institutions
Some databases don’t exist
No access to most of the databases
Time consuming written correspondence, problems in
compilation & analysis of data
- No access to STRs
Facilitation of Identification &
Tracing of Assets
• 2007/845/JHA ….for the purposes of the
facilitation of the tracing and identification of
proceeds of crime and other crime related
property which may become the object of a
freezing, seizure or confiscation order
Facilitation of Identification &
Tracing of Assets
• Legal problems concerning confiscation &
seizure should be addressed
• ARO Authorization process should be completed
• Access to information problems should be
solved.
• Thank You,
• M.Murat YAŞAR,
• myasar@kom.gov.tr