Hannes
Jansen van Vuren
Currently a technical advisor for the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), Hannes had been assisting on a long-term project in Malawi for the last 4 years, building capacity amongst its law enforcement agencies including the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA). Prior to this engagement, he was involved with the UNODC (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime) office as an technical advisor and country mentor in Malawi and Tanzania on the regional ARINSA Project (Asset Recovery Inter Agency Southern Africa) where the purpose was to build capacity on informal sharing of financial intelligence related to proceeds of crime.
An international financial investigations advisor on money laundering, asset forfeiture, terrorist financing and corruption, Hannes has had been assisting on capacity building and technical advice in several Africa counties such as Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Seychelles and Uganda amongst some of the few, assisting on training development of investigators, prosecutors, magistrates and Judges through organisations like the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit / or German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ) and the UK Department of International Development (DFID).
Two years was spent in Nigeria to assist law enforcement agencies developing and presenting 5 different levels of 2 week anti-corruption and financial investigative training courses at the Anti-Corruption Academy of the PCCB in Abuja through Chris Mathers Inc.
Hannes obtained his B-Tech degree in Forensic Investigations, National Diploma in Policing, Certificate Anti-Corruption and Commercial Crimes Investigation through the University of South Africa (UNISA) and diploma in Criminal Justice & Forensic Auditing and Certificate in Money Laundering Control (Cum Laude) with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). He is currently working towards an MA in Criminal Justice with UNISA and had a pocketbook publication with Charles Goradema in 2015. Understanding Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows. Juta.
Prior moving into the private sector and development sphere, he was a police detective for 15 years serving with several specialised investigative units in South Africa.