CONFERENCE DOCUMENTATION

 27th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the IAP
Tbilisi, Georgia 25 - 29 September 2022

SUNDAY, 25 September 2022

Global Forum for Associations of Prosecutors

Chair: Kate Matthews, Vice President, Association of Crown Counsels, Canada BIO

Speakers:
  • Paulo Castro, Direction Member, Union of Magistrates of the Public Ministry (SMMP), Portugal BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Andre Glitz, President of Association of Prosecutors (CONAMP), Brazil BIO PRESENTATION
  • Padma Rao Lakkaraju, National Vice President, All India Prosecutors Association (AIPA), India BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION

MONDAY, 26 September 2022

Keynote Speech

Speaker: Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Counselor for International Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice, USA BIO PRESENTATION

Special Session: Independence of Prosecution Services

Chair / Speaker: Max Hill, Director of Public Prosecutions, England & Wales, U.K. BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION

Speakers:

  • Irakli Shotadze, Prosecutor General, Georgia
  • Shamila Batohi, National Director of Public Prosecutions, South Africa BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Juan Mahiques, Attorney General, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Mikael Järetoft, CCPE Member (Sweden), CCPE Working Group Member, Council of Europe BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
Plenary 1:  COVID, Institutional Challenges & Response

Speakers:
 
  • Ali AlBuainain, Attorney General, Bahrain BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Jennifer Harrower, Deputy Head of the Local Court, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland BIO SYNOPSIS/ABSTRACT PRESENTATION
  • Carol Shirtliff-Hinds, Chief Federal Prosecutor, Public Prosecution Services, Canada BIO PRESENTATION
  • Naser Hashdi, Public Prosecutor, Saudi Arabia PRESENTATION
  • Mahayu Suryandari, Head of Division of Legal and International Relations, Attorney General ’s Office, Indonesia PRESENTATION
  • Kamran Aliyev, Prosecutor General, Azerbaijan BIO PRESENTATION

Workshop Session 1

A. Digital Transformation Across Criminal Justice Systems

Chair: Roel Dona, Senior Advocate-General, Public Prosecution Service, The Netherlands

Speakers:

  • David Antonyshyn, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Public Prosecution Service, Canada BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Wei Shyong Tai, Deputy Attorney General, Attorney General’s Chambers, Singapore BIO PRESENTATION
  • Erkin Alikhanov, Director of International Legal Cooperation Department, Prosecutor General's Office, Azerbaijan BIO PRESENTATION
  • Ilknur Altuntas, Senior Prosecutor, General Prosecution Office of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Türkiye BIO PRESENTATION

B. Public Health Responses to Crime

Chair:  Kate Matthews, Vice President, Association of Crown Counsels, Canada BIO
 
Speakers:

  • Akram Alkhatib, Attorney General, Palestine BIO PRESENTATION
  • Eneas Romero de Vasconcelos, State Prosecutor of Ceará, former Chief of Covid Task Force, Director of Prosecution Training State Institute, State Prosecution Service, Brazil SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Richard Bent, President, Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) (online presentation) BIO PRESENTATION 
  • Reeve Jacobus, Research and Policy Associate, Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) (online presentation)

Special Interest Group Sessions

1. Heads of Prosecution Services

Moderator: Irakli Chilingarashvili, Head of the Department of Legal Affairs and International Relations, Office of the Prosecutor General, Georgia

Opening Remarks: Irakli Shotadze, Prosecutor General, Georgia
Speakers:

  • Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Counselor for International Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice, USA BIO
  • Gerrit   van   der   Burg, Chairman   of   the   Netherlands   Public Prosecution Service, the Netherlands BIO
  • Juan Mahiques, Attorney General, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina BIO SYNOPSIS
  • Catalin   Andrei   Popescu, acting   Deputy   Prosecutor   General, Romania
  • Martine Solovieff, Prosecutor General, Luxemburg
  • Jennifer Harrower, Deputy Head of the Local Court, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Noordin Haji, Director of Public Prosecutions of Kenya PRESENTATION
  • Qaher Mustafa Ali, Prosecutor General, Yemen 

2. Distribution of Competences between Investigators and Prosecutors

Chair/Speaker: Shenaz Muzaffer, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor and Head of the International, Crown Prosecution Service, U.K. BIO SYNOPSIS 
 
Speakers:

  • Lisa Osofsky, Director, Serious Fraud Office, U.K. PRESENTATION
  • Satyajit Boolell, Director of Public Prosecutions, Mauritius
  • Lenneke Bronkhorst, Prosecutor, Public Prosecution Service, the Netherlands
  • Antonio Segovia Arancibia, Head of the International Cooperation and Extraditions Unit, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Chile (online presentation) BIO SYNOPSYS PRESENTATION
  • Taihyung Kim, Senior Prosecutor, Prosecution Service, Korea BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Runar Torgersen, Senior Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Norway PRESENTATION

TUESDAY, 27 September 2022

Special Session – Effective Responses to War Crimes

Chair: Jean-François Thony, President of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, former Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of Rennes, France BIO

Speakers:

  • Simon Minks, National Coordinating Advocate-General specialized in counter terrorism and war crimes, the Netherlands (online presentation) BIO PRESENTATION
  • Ladislav Hamran, President of EUROJUST BIO SYOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Nazhat Shameem Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court BIO PRESENTATION

Plenary 2:  Evolution of Cyber-Crime Typologies

Chair / Speaker: Timothy Rank, U.S. Department of Justice Liaison Prosecutor at Eurojust, U.S. Cybercrime Specialist, USA BIO PRESENTATION

Speakers:

  • David Scharia, Director, Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations PRESENTATION
  • Gilles Charbonnier, Prosecutor General, Appeal Court of Paris, France BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Jianming Tong, First Deputy Prosecutor General, China (video presentation) BIO PRESENTATION
  • Stefan Blaettler, Attorney General, Switzerland BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
 

Workshop Session 2

A) Prosecuting Crimes on the Darknet

Chair:  Monique Corten, Head of International Division, Public Prosecution Service, the Netherlands
 
Speakers:

  • Timothy Rank, U.S. Department of Justice Liaison Prosecutor at Eurojust, U.S. Cybercrime Specialist, USA BIO PRESENTATION
  • Mark Carroll, Director, Criminal Justice, Optima, U.K. BIO PRESENTATION
  • Sophie Macquart -Moulin, Deputy Director of the Division of Criminal Affairs and Pardon, Ministry of Justice, France PRESENTATION

Rapporteur:  Padma Rao Lakkaraju, National Vice President, All India Prosecutor Association, India BIO

B)  IAP Partners Programme

Chair/Speaker: Jean-François Thony, President of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights BIO PRESENTATION

Speakers:

  • Simon Minks, National Coordinating Advocate-General specialized in counter terrorism and war crimes, the Netherlands (online presentation on UNICRI - Prosecutor's Guide to Chemical and Biological Crimes) BIO PRESENTATION
  • Kristjan Burgess, Senior Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Section, UNESCO PRESENTATION
  • Jeanette, Manning, Director of NAGTRI, the National Association of Attorneys General, USA BIO PRESENTATION

Rapporteur:  Sabin Ouellet, former Chief Prosecutor, Canada BIO

WEDNESDAY, 28 September 2022

Plenary 3:  Challenges of E-evidence Across Borders

Chair: Givi Baghdavadze, Head of International Cooperation Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, Georgia BIO

Speakers:

  • Pedro Verdelho, Vice Chair, Council of Europe Cybercrime Committee BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • David Scharia, Director, Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations PRESENTATION
  • Thomas Burrows, Associate Director, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, USA BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Andres Parmas, Prosecutor General of Estonia PRESENTATION
  • Woo Jung Shim, Chief Prosecutor, Incheon District Prosecutors' Office, Korea BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION

IAP - UNESCO Special Session on Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes against Media Workers and Freedom of Expression

Speakers:

  • Kristjan Burgess, Senior Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Section, UNESCO PRESENTATION
  • Sabin Ouellet, former Chief Prosecutor, Canada BIO PRESENTATION
  • Simon Clements, former Chief Crown Prosecutor, U.K. BIO PRESENTATION

Workshop Session 3
A. Challenges Obtaining Digital Evidence from Abroad (Case Studies)

Chair: Thomas Burrows, Associate Director, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, USA BIO
 
Speakers:                                                                                 

  • Frédéric Van Leeuw, Federal Prosecutor, Belgium
  • Lana Owens, U.S. Embassy Tbilisi, Resident Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of Justice BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Daniela Dupuy, Prosecutor General, Prosecution Unit Specialized in Crimes and Informatic Misdemeanor, CABA, Argentina BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Shenaz Muzaffer, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor and Head of the International, Crown Prosecution Service, U.K. BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION

B. Freedom of Expression & Social Media

Chair:  Gerhard Jarosch, Managing Partner, Rosam. Gruenberger. Jarosch & Partner, Austria
 
Speakers:

  • Cássius Guimarães Chai, Criminal Prosecutor, Public Ministry of the State of Maranhão, Brazil BIO PRESENTATION
  • Kristjan Burgess, Senior Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Section, UNESCO PRESENTATION


THURSDAY, 29 September 2022

Plenary 4:  Money Laundering through Virtual Assets

Chair:  Mark Carroll, Director, Criminal Justice, Optima BIO
 
Speakers:

  • Bob Seeman, managing partner of CyberCurb, former Head of Strategy Microsoft U.K., technical consultant to the European Commission, Canada BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Bakur Abuladze, First Deputy Prosecutor General, Georgia BIO PRESENTATION
  • Franz Plöchl, Prosecutor General, Austria BIO PRESENTATION
  • Nataraj Muneesamy, Principal State Counsel, Mauritius BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Head of Proceeds of Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service, U.K. BIO PRESENTATION

Workshop Session 4
A. Importance of Parallel Financial Investigations in Practice

Chair: Gunilla Arph-Malmberg, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, International Coordinator, Swedish Economic Crime Authority BIO
 
Speakers:

  • Xolisile Khanyile, Chair of Egmont Group BIO PRESENTATION
  • Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Head of Proceeds of Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service, U.K., CARIN Point of Contact BIO PRESENTATION
  • Ricardo Rafael Toranzos, Federal Prosecutor, Province of Salta, Argentina BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Aleksander Mukasashvili, Deputy Head of Investigation Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, Georgia BIO PRESENTATION
  • Katarina Mörnstad, Senior Public Prosecutor, the Swedish Economic Crime Authority BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION

B) Tracing, Seizing & Freezing virtual assets

Chair: Roel Dona, Senior Advocate-General, Public Prosecution Service, The Netherlands
 
Speakers:

  • Eun Young Choi, Director, National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, U.S. Department of Justice, USA BIO PRESENTATION
  • Paul Kadushi, Director of Asset Forfeiture, Transnational and Specialized Crimes Division, National Prosecutions Service, Tanzania BIO SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Annika Wennerström, Senior Public Prosecutor, Swedish Prosecution Authority SYNOPSIS PRESENTATION
  • Laura Mora, Prosecutor, Prosecutors Office Against Fraud and Cyber Crime, Costa Rica PRESENTATION

IAP Specialist Network Session 
1. IAP’s Anti-Corruption and Financial Crime Network

Facilitator: Isfandiyar Hajiyev, Deputy Head of Department, Office of the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan

Speakers:

  • Laura Codruta Kövesi, the European Chief Prosecutor, European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) BIO PRESENTATION
  • James Hamilton, independent adviser to the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland, and past IAP President BIO PRESENTATION
  • Vugar Aliyev, Director of the Department for the Coordination of Special Confiscation Issues, Office of the Prosecutor General, Azerbaijan BIO PRESENTATION
  • Nikoloz Chinkorashvili, Deputy Head of the International Relations and Legal Department, Office of the Prosecutor General, Georgia BIO PRESENTATION
  • Kairi Kaldoja, Chief Prosecutor of the Northern District Prosecutor’s Office, Estonia BIO PRESENTATION

2. IAP’s Trafficking in Persons Network
 
Facilitator:  Gina Cabrejo, Acting Director, NAGTRI Center for International Partnerships and Strategic Collaboration, USA BIO

Speakers:

  • Ralph Catedral, Specialist, Prosecution, Assessment and Consulting, Center to End Online Sexual Exploitation of Children, International Justice Mission BIO PRESENTATION
  • Katharina Thon, Programme and Capacity Building Officer, Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, OSCE PRESENTATION

3. IAP’s E-Crime Network
 
Facilitator:  Edith van den Broeck, Senior Legal Advisor of the IAP, Senior Prosecutor
 
Speakers:

  • Pedro Verdelho, Vice-Chair, Council of Europe Cybercrime Committee BIO PRESENTATION
  • Giorgi Jokhadze, Project Manager of CyberEast project, Council of Europe (online presentation)
  • Givi Baghdavadze, Head of International Cooperation Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, Georgia BIO PRESENTATION
  • Timothy Rank, U.S. Department of Justice Liaison Prosecutor at Eurojust, U.S. Cybercrime Specialist, USA BIO PRESENTATION

Find biographies of the conference contributors and synopses of the speeches here