World Bank ‘stolen asset recovery’ team here on scoping mission

The State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) is holding discussions with a team from the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) which is here on a “scoping mission”, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

“This scoping mission will meet with all of these agencies and craft an action plan and that by the 28th March they will be back in Guyana to present that plan and to work out with the SARU on a way forward in that regard,” Harmon said at a post-Cabinet press briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency.

StAR is a partnership between the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that aids international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds. StAR works with developing countries and financial centres to