Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

Graph 44 Supervision of bankruptcy, 1998–2003
18 000
16 000
14 000
12 000
16 488
13 436
12 353
12 575 13 037 13 012
10 000
8 000
6 000
9 254
7 279
7 196
7 879
8 374
8 686
4 000
2 000
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1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Cases received
Active cases
9.2 TRACKING DOWN AND RECOVERING THE PROCEEDS
OF ECONOMIC CRIME
An interagency project launched by the Swedish Economic Crimes
Council involves tracking down and recovering the proceeds of economic
crime. One objective is for EBM, FiPo, SKV, KFM, Customs and others
to develop joint models on how various agencies can obtain information
about assets. That also entails working methods for expanding and
improving current procedures for securing property.
Police, prosecutors and others are to learn more about attachment and
sequestration, as well as how seizure and bankruptcy regulations work.
Awareness of how to secure assets found during a search of the premises
and the like should be a standard feature of every crime investigation. In
addition, consciousness about currently available options for information
sharing among crime investigation agencies, SKV, KFM and receivers in
bankruptcy is to be raised.
With that in mind, EBM is planning seminars aimed at the agencies concerned.
Based on the Rubicon model, the practical experience shared at
the seminars will be followed up on and analyzed in greater detail. At that
stage, the project will further examine improvements to the regulations
that are needed to more effectively collect assets from people and businesses
linked to economic crime.
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