The Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) held a productive working meeting with representatives of the Caribbean Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (ARIN-CARIB), as well as representatives of Belize and the Cayman Islands. Among the key topics was the possibility of obtaining observer status in the network.

The meeting also discussed practical aspects of cooperation in asset tracing and identification. In particular, ARMA representatives presented a criminal case involving companies registered in the jurisdictions of the ARIN-CARIB countries. Representatives of Belize and the Cayman Islands expressed their full readiness to cooperate in tracing these assets.

Special attention of foreign representatives was drawn to the joint innovative mechanism of ARMA and the NACP for tracing unjustified assets of officials abroad.

Given ARMA's significant successes in the international arena over the past year, the participants discussed the possibility of granting the agency observer status in the ARIN-CARIB network. This will open up additional opportunities for the effective search for assets related to criminal activity in the most remote parts of the world.

ARMA was represented at the meeting by Anna Makarenko, Director of the Department for Finding, Tracing and Recovery of Assets in Foreign Jurisdictions, Pavlo Trukhan, Acting Head of the Division of the Department of Digital Development, Asset Finding and Tracing, and Natalia Kostynchuk, Head of the Division of the Department of International Cooperation and European Integration.

As a reminder, within the framework of the CARIN General Assembly, ARMA reached an agreement with the Director of the ARO and representative of the ARIN-CARIB Secretariat Kisha Southerland to hold an online conference with representatives of the Regional Network countries to establish cooperation.