CBI Academy in Ghaziabad opens anti-corruption training course for 24 officials

Twenty-four officials from 16 countries began a week of training on anti-corruption investigations at the CBI Academy in Ghaziabad on November 4.

The course, titled “Investigation of Anti-Corruption Cases and Asset Recovery”, is being conducted under the Ministry of External Affairs’ Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme. Participants have travelled from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Lebanon, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Sessions will cover India’s legal and institutional framework for tackling corruption, along with financial investigations, identifying and tracking alleged proceeds of crime, and processes for attaching and confiscating illicit assets. The programme also addresses international cooperation in asset recovery.

CBI Academy director Suhail Sharma inaugurated the course and stressed the need for coordinated international efforts to trace corruption proceeds and recover illicit assets. The training is scheduled to run for one week at the Ghaziabad campus.