CBI Trains Foreign Officers From 16 Nations In Graft Probes
The programme concluded on Tuesday with a valedictory function presided over by CBI special director N. Venu Gopal: Reports
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has trained 24 law enforcement officers from 16 countries in investigating corruption cases, tracing illicit assets and recovering proceeds of crime under an Indian government programme, officials said on Wednesday.
The week-long course was conducted at the CBI Academy in Ghaziabad from November 4 to 10 under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme of the Ministry of External Affairs.
The programme concluded on Tuesday with a valedictory function presided over by CBI special director N. Venu Gopal.
The participants included three officers from Botswana, two each from Lebanon, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and one each from Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Madagascar, Maldives, Myanmar, Namibia, Panama and Paraguay.
The group comprised 11 women and 13 men from law enforcement and investigative agencies.
According to the CBI, the training covered the legal framework for investigating corruption under the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and Indian laws.
The officers were trained in identifying and collecting digital evidence, detecting cryptocurrency investments, tracing assets and money trails, and uncovering benami transactions and shell company networks.
The course also covered litigation support, gathering evidence, recovery of proceeds of crime and civil and criminal asset forfeiture.
As part of the programme, the participants visited the Network for Evidence Tracing, Research and Analysis (NETRA) laboratory and the Global Operations Centre at the CBI headquarters in New Delhi.
