Russia / CIS Approaches to business development in Fraud and Asset Recovery in an emerging market with growth potential Conference of the ICC FraudNet – BVI, 23 – 25 April 2014 Khristofer Ivanyan Bettina Knoetzl Dmytro Marchukov
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FACTS 1/6 3 Official Members CountryCapitalPopulation (Mio.) Area (km 2 ) ArmeniaYerevan2, AzerbaijanBaku8, BelarusMinsk9, KazakhstanAstana15, KyrgyzstanBishkek5, MoldovaChiinău4, RussiaMoscow142, TajikistanDushanbe7, UzbekistanTashkent26, CIS222,
4 FACTS 2/6 Participating states CountryCapitalPopulation (Mio.) Area (km 2 ) Membership Status TurkmenistanAshgabat5, Unofficial associate member UkraineKiew46, de facto participating; officially not a member. On March 14, 2014 a bill was introduced to Ukraine's parliament to withdraw from CIS following the annexation of Crimea by Russia
FACTS 3/6 5 Unemployment rate* CountryPopulation (Mio.) Unemployment rate (%) Armenia2, Azerbaijan8,475.5 Belarus9,855.9 Kazakhstan15,235.2 Kyrgyzstan5,087.9 Moldova4,465.9 Russia142,405.8 Tajikistan7, Uzbekistan26, * The unemployment rate is taken from International Labour Organization (ILO)
FACTS 4/6 6 Economic Data * CountryGDP 2007 (USD)GDP 2012 (USD) Growth (%) Russia1,294,381,844,0812,022,000,000,000 56,21 Kazakhstan104,849,915,344196,642,000,000 87,55 Azerbaijan33,049,426,81671,043,000, ,96 Belarus45,275,738,77058,215,000,000 28,58 Uzbekistan22,355,214,80551,622,000, ,92 Armenia9,204,496,41910,551,000,000 14,63 Moldova4,401,137,8247,589,000,000 72,43 Tajikistan2,265,340,8887,263,000, ,61 Kyrgyzstan3,802,570,5726,197,000,000 62,97 * The data is taken from the United Nations Statistics Division & CIA
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LEGAL LANDSCAPE 9 GLOBAL CHAMBERS „TOP TIER“ Country Armenia Ameria Legal and Tax Advisors, Arlex International CJSC, Harutiunian & Partners Azerbaijan Baker & McKenzie, Dentons, MGB Law Offices, OMNI Law Firm Belarus Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners, Vlasova, Mikhel & Partners Kazakhstan Aequitas Law Firm, Dechert LLP, Dentons, GRATA Law Firm Kyrgyzstan Kalikova & Associates, Lorenz Moldova Turcan Cazac Russia Baker & McKenzie, Clifford Chance Tajikistan Akhmedov, Azizov & Abdulhamidov Attorneys, Colibri Law Firm, Legal Consulting Group, Nazrisho & Mirzoev Uzbekistan Azizov & Partners, Colibri Law Firm, Leges Advokat
WHERE IS FraudNet? 10 Khristofor Ivanyan in Moscow
FUTURE OUTLOOK 11 What can we do as FraudNet a)immediately – as we currently are – and b)what should be done in the future.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Bettina Knoetzl, Partner WOLF THEISS Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG Schubertring 6, 1010 Vienna Tel: Fax: Dmytro Marchukov, Counsel Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners 38 Volodymyrska St., Kyiv 01030, Ukraine Tel.: +380 (44) Fax: +380 (44) Khristofor Ivanyan, Partner Ivanyan & Partners 3 floor, bld. 4, 10 Bolshaya Dmitrovka St Moscow, Russia Tel: +7 (495) Fax: +7 (495)