Webinar: Investigating and Prosecuting the Destruction, Looting and Trafficking of Cultural Heritage by Terrorist Groups

Date: Thursday 31 October 2024 - Thursday 31 October 2024

Location: Online

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Date / time:       09:30 – 10:45 hrs Eastern Time / 15:30 – 16:45 hrs CET, Thursday 31 October 2024
 
Speakers:           

• Agathe Sarfati, Political Affairs Officer, Political Research and Analysis Team, UN CTED
•  Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit, New York 

Facilitator:         
Shenaz Muzaffer, General Counsel, International Association of Prosecutors
 
Since the early 1980’s, terrorist and insurgent groups have been exploiting the lucrative illegal market for cultural artifacts to fund their activities, capitalising on regional smuggling networks and exploiting conflicts to facilitate their operations. This webinar aims to enhance the understanding of prosecutors of the scope of this phenomenon and to improve the criminal justice response to combatting cultural heritage smuggling and its links to terrorism. It will provide an overview of the UN Security Council’s approach to addressing the terrorist destruction and looting of property, and seeks to examine some of the obstacles to uncovering links between terrorism financing and antiquities smuggling. It aims to underscore the importance and impact of close collaboration between domestic and international stakeholders to tackle this threat, and to highlight the significance of effective parallel financial investigations.
 
This 75-minute webinar will be held in English and no interpretation will be provided. However, attendees can access live automated interpretation and translated captions via the Zoom platform during the webinar. All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. The webinar is open to all IAP organisational and individual members.
 
Please note that this webinar will not be recorded.
 
For more details, please contact Ms. Irina Beridze, Executive Programme Manager of the IAP, at epm@iap-association.org
 
We look forward to welcoming you at the webinar!