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Workshop 9: Exploring Proactive Investigations

Workshop 9 aims to introduce participants to the strategic and operational foundations of proactive investigations, highlighting why they matter, how they can be implemented in both internal and external contexts, and what resources, tools, and governance arrangements are needed to sustain them.
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Gaston Darioli (UNDP)
Currently serving as Chief, Regional Investigations and Proactive Operations with the UNDP’s Office of Audit and Investigations (OAI), Gaston has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of criminal and administrative investigations, at both national and international levels, fraud risk management and criminal analysis. For the last ten years, he has led a dedicated team of professionals investigating allegations of corruption, financial fraud, and sexual misconduct within UNDP. He is fluent in four languages, English, French, Italian, and German.
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Callum Weeks (WFP)
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Alan Bacarese (WB)
Alan joined the World Bank Group’s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) as Director of Investigations, Strategy, and Operations in February 2021.
In this role, Alan oversees INT’s investigations of alleged fraud, corruption, and other sanctionable practices involving projects and activities financed by the World Bank Group, its corporate vendors, and World Bank Group staff, as well as efforts to litigate substantiated investigations within the World Bank Group’s Sanctions System. He also manages INT’s Prevention, Risk, and Knowledge Management function, to promote best practices in the prevention of fraud and corruption in World Bank Group–supported projects. In addition, Alan provides support to INT’s Vice President in setting the strategic priorities for the unit’s overall anticorruption efforts.
Alan has over 30 years experience in investigating and prosecuting matters of international fraud and corruption. Before joining INT, he was the Director of Integrity and Anti-Corruption for the African Development Bank, where he led the Bank’s anticorruption investigation function and its policies on anticorruption and integrity measures, as well as the Bank’s business integrity due diligence function. His past roles include serving as a UK Senior Crown Prosecutor, the first Head of Legal and Case Consultancy at the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery and an External Member of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Sanctions Committee. Alan is a UK national and holds an LLB (Hons.) in law and is qualified as a UK Barrister and an Advocate of the Higher Courts of England and Wales.  He is the author of many published articles, technical papers and is a co-author to the UK’s leading UK legal text on Corruption and Misconduct in Public Office (published by OUP – 4th Ed. – https://academic.oup.com/book/58180).
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Anais Nau (IOM)

CII General Principles for Core Investigative Activities

Six volumes of General Principles for conducting core investigative activities that greatly expand on the principles within the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines for Investigations. Endorsed at the 21st CII, these Principles provide more in-depth, principles-based, uniform guidance to investigators and Investigative Offices conducting these six core activities: Intake and Evaluation, Scoping and Planning, collection of Physical and Documentary Evidence, collection of Testimonial Evidence, collection of Digital Evidence and Evidence Analysis and Reporting of Findings.

As supplements to the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines, each paper sets out non-binding principles establishing uniform standards to guide investigators and Investigative Offices undertaking these activities. They are purposely not prescriptive in technical details nor implementing practices. These Principles will also form the basis for a future CII Investigator Credential and CII Investigator training pathways.

DOWNLOAD INTAKE AND EVALUATION
 
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DOWNLOAD PHYSICAL AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
DOWNLOAD TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE
 
DOWNLOAD DIGITAL EVIDENCE
 
DOWNLOAD EVIDENCE ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF FINDINGS