EU Anti-Corruption sharing programme June 25 th 2018 EUROPOL SUPPORT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS Romain de Beausse O50 Financial Intelligence Unit
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INTRODUCTION TO EUROPOL Data Exchange Operation Department The Analysis projects AP ANALYSIS PROJECT Databases (AWF SOC CT) + teams and software dedicated to criminal analysis Processing and storage of mass data related to on-going cases. Databases that can be consulted only by Europol authorized user staff Information broadcasted through reports or during operational/coordination meeting. Handling code system (Each information provider remains as owner of its data and can protect it)
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SUPPORT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS Support to the investigation What are the issues? What are the needs? Investigators issues? International framework of Anti-Corruption investigations Large amount of data to gather and analyze Sensitivity of the investigation Needs? Regular contacts and cooperation with countries involved Specific knowledge and tools to gather and analyze financial and personal data Cross-checks with financial intelligence data Sharing information with third party being sure that data provided will not be disseminated
SUPPORT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS What can we provide? International framework of Anti-Corruption investigations Secure communication between Member States (MS) and Third parties (TP) Real time exchanges thanks to our Liaison officers network Data protection thanks to Handling Code Operational meetings in our HQ in The Hague (NL) or on the field
SUPPORT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS What can we provide? Our Databases Data from anti-corruption cases will be handled and processed in our databases. Then, it will be crosschecked against the following: Other worldwide cases whose data have been provided to Europol Suspicious transactions reports (Provided by MS) Cash declarations (Provided by MS) Analysis Reports
SUPPORT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS What can we provide? Knowledge and tools Documents analysis Financial information Analysis Support to interview preparations Forensic analysis (Phones computers) House searches support Assets identification Facilitation (CARIN Network) Support to Asset recovery Office ARO Request Ufed Cellebrite
CASE STUDY Example Case Example From the theory to the practice March 2018 : Europol support requested for a large Bribery case involving several MS (Europol Mandate). Their Needs : 50688 documents to analyze. (Word processing files, Spreadsheets, emails, calendars) First Europol proposition step by step : 1. Sharing of Data 2. Defining a way to analyze the files 3. Defining a way and a schedule to release our analysis
CASE STUDY Example Case Example From the theory to the practice 1st Step : Collect data from the MS Because data are too heavy to be transferred through our SIENA Interface (50Mb Max), Anti- Corruption Unit used the Europol Large-File-Exchange Platform to drop their data (Web access or SSH access) MS dropped 13.8 Gb on Europol Servers
CASE STUDY Example Case Example From the theory to the practice 2 nd Step : Light analysis of data provided and operational meeting 15 days after the reception of the data MS Investigators and Europol Specialists/Analysts met together to define how to coordinate action. 3 rd Step : In-depth analysis and release of Europol productions MS NEEDS : During this first stage of investigation, MS investigators plan interviews and requested Europol Support to analyze and find any evidence related to each suspects/witnesses interview that can be found out in the data collected. EUROPOL PROPOSAL : Triage of documents (thanks to forensics software) by suspects/witness Analysis of these docs by summarizing every relevant findings Crosschecks of evidence gathered against Europol databases. Schedule : Europol reports have to be provided around 15 days before each interview.
CASE STUDY Example Case Example From theory to practice 4 th Step : Interviews made by MS are processed by Europol After each interview, MS provide us thanks to SIENA with a copy of their interview. Evidence gathered are then crosschecks against Europol databases STR Cash declarations Investigation are made thanks to our network to identify Assets. Analysts release an analysis report after each interview. Analysis Reports
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