Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2009C01026:body:0:p39
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2009C01026
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 101495–104789

ownership of such confiscated property to the requested State Party or when the requested State Party recognizes damage to the requesting State Party as a basis for returning the confiscated property;

 (c) In all other cases, give priority consideration to returning confiscated property to the requesting State Party, returning such property to its prior legitimate owners or compensating the victims of the crime.

 4. Where appropriate, unless States Parties decide otherwise, the requested State Party may deduct reasonable expenses incurred in investigations, prosecutions or judicial proceedings leading to the return or disposition of confiscated property pursuant to this article.

 5. Where appropriate, States Parties may also give special consideration to concluding agreements or mutually acceptable arrangements, on a case-by-case basis, for the final disposal of confiscated property.

Article 58
Financial intelligence unit

 States Parties shall cooperate with one another for the purpose of preventing and combating the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and of promoting ways and means of recovering such proceeds and, to that end, shall consider establishing a financial intelligence unit to be responsible for receiving, analysing and disseminating to the competent authorities reports of suspicious financial transactions.

Article 59
Bilateral and multilateral agreements and arrangements

 States Parties shall consider concluding bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements to enhance the effectiveness of international cooperation undertaken pursuant to this chapter of the Convention.

Chapter VI
Technical assistance and information exchange

Article 60
Training and technical assistance

 1. Each State Party shall, to the extent necessary, initiate, develop or improve specific training programmes for its personnel responsible for preventingand combating corruption. Such training programmes could deal, inter alia, with thefollowing areas:

 (a) Effective measures to prevent, detect, investigate, punish and control corruption, including the use of evidence-gathering and investigative methods;

 (b) Building capacity in the development and planning of strategic anticorruption policy;

 (c) Training competent authorities in the preparation of requests for mutual legal assistance that meet the requirements of this Convention;

 (d) Evaluation and strengthening of institutions, public service management and the management of public finances, including public procurement, and the private sector;

 (e) Preventing and combating the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and recovering such proceeds;

 (f) Detecting and freezing of the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention;

 (g) Surveillance of the movement of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and of the methods used to transfer, conceal or disguise such proceeds;

 (h) Appropriate and efficient legal and administrative mechanisms and methods for facilitating the return of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention;

 (i) Methods used in protecting victims and witnesses who cooperate with judicial