2. Role and Functions of ARINSA
Facilitate informal requests on asset recovery and money laundering cases between member countries.
Train and build capacity of asset forfeiture practitioners in ARINSA and non-ARINSA members countries in Africa – police, prosecutors and judiciary.
Mentor asset forfeiture practitioners on an ongoing basis.
Assist guidance with establishing asset forfeiture units and the drafting of asset recovery and money laundering legislation.

3. ARINSA member countries
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe

4. Membership pending
Mozambique
Angola
Seychelles
Madagascar

5. Network Essentials Investigator and Prosecutor Senior practitioners
Contacts in other networks
CARIN
RRAG
ARIN-WA
ARIN-AP
ARIN-EA
FOREIGN LAW ENFORCEMENT LIAISON OFFICERS
United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

6. ARINSA mentors Currently Deployed Mauritius Lesotho Zambia Functions
Botswana
Namibia
Tanzania
Swaziland
Malawi
Functions
Case assistance
Strategic planning
Workshops on identifiable issues
Identifying training needs for next 3 years

7. Priorities
For all ARINSA members to seize proceeds of crime and take cases to court to obtain freezing and confiscation orders and prosecute for money laundering.
Placement of mentors in all ARINSA member countries to assist with financial intelligence, financial and money laundering investigations.
The advisors will assist investigators to run parallel financial investigations to the criminal case which provides a transnational platform to seize assets and proceeds of crime.(FATF 2012)
Partnering with other regional and international networks and law enforcement agencies on joint operations;
Shared intelligence
In RSA - 21 arrests working in conjunction with the US HSI.
Identified and seizure of $6mil last 12 months RSA.

8. Priorities cont.. Setting up Asset Forfeiture Units
Dedicated unit and with practitioners addressing asset forfeiture and money laundering.
Asset Management
Ensuring the value of assets are preserved until final forfeiture.
Asset Forfeiture Funds
Ensure that forfeited funds are ring-fenced to fight crime and investigations.
Forfeited funds are used to fund Asset Forfeiture Units and law enforcements innitiatives.

10. Mr. Jumlong
Mr. Jumlong was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in South Africa for trafficking Rhino horns from South Africa.
Thai authorities met with their African counterparts, In January 2015
Thai Transaction Committee considered a request to freeze assets linked to  Mr. Jumlong.
The property included 7 bank accounts under his name and his 3rd wife with total amount of 2.2 Million Thai Baht approximately 70,000 USD and a house valued at 5 million Thai Baht.

11. What concerns us? Virtual currencies Cross border money transfers
Bitcoin -
Gold farming – World of Warcraft game
Cross border money transfers
transfer as a result of a point-of-sale
payment or a cash withdrawal in a country in the Rand Common Monetary Area.
Informal and formal money remitters
Abuse of travel allowances(Excon)
Beneficial ownership 5

12. “In my experience, neither regular citizens nor those employed in the financial industry really have a clue about what money laundering is or how investigators can follow the money trail to uncover many other types of crime”
Mathers, Chris. 2004, Crime School : Money Laundering
Key Porter Books, Toronto, Canada

13. ARINSA CONTACTS Information can be obtained from: a) Fitz-Roy Drayton1:
b) JP Willemse (ARINSA Secretariat)  
c) ARINSA