KLEPTOTRACE will boost the investigation, tracing and recovery of the assets related to transnational high-level corruption and to sanctioned regimes and entities through a combination of (i) research, (ii) training and (iii) data-driven tools. It will:

1. Produce a ground-breaking analysis of the risk factors of transnational high-level corruption and of the schemes used to circumvent EU sanctions;
2. Carry out 5 targeted trainings for EU public authorities, private sector (e.g. banks) and civil society to strengthen anti-corruption investigation/intelligence capabilities;
3. Develop a data-driven toolbox for tracing and interconnecting different assets (e.g. firms, real estate, vessels) related to high-level corruption and sanctioned entities;
4. Carry out an assessment of current EU sanction regimes and make legal and policy recommendations to make them more effective and sustainable against transnational corruption;
5. Boost the awareness of EU authorities and civil society with a dissemination campaign about the risks of ‘kleptocracy’ and of its interlinks with organised crime and IFFs.

The KLEPTOTRACE toolbox will build on and improve the DATACROS tool by connecting new asset registers and data beyond firms (e.g. real estate, vessels, asset declarations, sanction lists), and by embedding innovative AI-based risk assessment functions. It will cover 200+ countries and be accessible by interested authorities from all EU MS.

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Working group:

• Ernesto Ugo Savona - Director of Transcrime
• Gianluca Angelo Bertoni
• Francesco Calderoni
• Carlotta Carbone
• Massimiliano Carpino
• Carlo Castorina
• Maria Elena Cenci
• Serena Favarin
• María Paz Jofré Alegría
• Svein Brovold Parnas
• Michele Riccardi

Partners:

• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Italy (Coordinator)
• Crime&tech Srl - Italy
• Investigative Reporting Project Italy - Italy
• Ministerio del Interior - Spain
• Asociatia Jurnalistilor de Investigatii Context - Romania
• Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione - Italy
• Agenția Națională de Administrare a Bunurilor Indisponibilizate - Romania
• Université du Luxembourg - Luxembourg
• Malta Financial Services Authority - Malta
• Charokopeio Panepistimio - Greece
• Financial Intelligence Unit - Latvia
• The European Business Registry Association - Belgium