12/2025/ONS: International asset recovery

The aim of this onsite activity is to:

• strengthen the fight against organised crime by enhancing the ability of financial investigators and asset recovery specialists to seize, freeze, confiscate and manage assets.
• improve knowledge and skills of participants on changes of the legal framework and the most updated investigative techniques, with a focus on challenges of non-conviction-based confiscation.
• intensify contacts with European counterparts (financial investigators and asset recovery specialists) with the aim to improve law enforcement cooperation and information exchange related, in particular, to asset recovery, but also virtual currency and new payment methods.

EMPACT training activity

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Combating new forms of organised crime requires more cooperation between police and gendarmes, customs officers, border guards, judges, and prosecutors. EU institutions, agencies and Member States work together to tackle organised and serious international crime through a permanent and key instrument: the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

CEPOL plays a crucial role in the EMPACT mechanism through the provision of specialised training and the identification of training needs within each common security threat. Every year, CEPOL provides a comprehensive training package for each common EU crime priority consisting of onsite, online and exchange training activities.

Check more of CEPOL's EMPACT training activities here.