Agencia is stepping up its efforts to help governments reform their justice systems by creating a specialist division and appointing a sector expert to lead it.
The company has established a Serious Crime Directorate to drive its security activities in territories around the world. It has also appointed Tim Holt as head of the new division following the success of projects in Kenya.
Steve Pitts, Agencia’s Director of Justice, Security and Policing, said the Serious Crime Directorate was set up after the company identified a need to build confidence among developing nations working to improve their justice, policing and security systems – and among potential investors.
He said: “The Serious Crime Directorate is working on economic crime, anti-corruption and counter terrorism, helping to address the conflict, stability and security agenda and supporting the economy in these countries to make sure it is sufficiently robust.
“It’s very relevant to businesses working in these nations, increasing prosperity and helping them when they are exploring opportunities to invest.”
Tim is a former police officer who became a financial investigator in 1996 and has wide experience in the sector, notably with the UK Government’s National Crime Agency (NCA). He has delivered asset recovery training for government officials and agencies in Trinidad, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, France, Belgium and Italy and has hosted training in the UK for Lebanese, Russian and Vietnamese groups.
He was recruited by Agencia in 2017 for a specific project to help authorities in Kenya tackle corruption and associated criminality after the company was approached by HMRC on the strength of its success in driving criminal justice reform in countries including Malaysia, Croatia and Moldova.
Tim said: “The success of the project in Kenya led to us being invited to work with the state prosecutor’s office in Bosnia on corruption and money laundering. It became clear to us that these issues are a common thread running through a lot of projects that Agencia is working on and it made sense to create a division specifically to concentrate on that.
“The new division will broaden Agencia’s scope to tackle existing projects and to identify new opportunities around the world. It will also strengthen our network of investigators and intelligence specialists and enable us to take a more focused view of instances of corruption, the causes and how we can deal with them and try to educate and train the appropriate agencies in ways to improve what they do.”
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