2023 Annual General Meeting of the ARIN-CARIB network
The 2023 Annual General Meeting of the ARIN-CARIB network, hosted by the Cayman Islands Presidency, took place on July 27th and 28th [...]
ARIN-CARIB Successes: Canada Hits where it Hurts- The Pocket!!
On September 14th 2020, the Ontario Serious Fraud Office (SFO) successfully laid charges against a Canadian resident Charles Debono, aged 62 years, for fraud, [...]
ARIN-CARIB Hosts Practical Online Workshop-Demystifying Cryptocurrencies Training
On June 27th and 28th, 2022, the ARIN-CARIB Secretariat and Presidency, currently held by the Cayman Islands, hosted the first training workshop for the [...]
ARIN-CARIB attends Europol ARINs’ Meeting 2022
On June 22nd and 23rd, 2022, the Spanish CARIN Presidency in collaboration with the Europol Financial Economic Crime Center (EFECC) hosted the Eighth Meeting [...]
The Cayman Islands currently holds the Presidency
The Presidency of the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for the Caribbean rotates annually among member states. In 2020-21, the Presidency was held by Trinidad and [...]
Commonwealth of Dominica: Police seize over $1million in Money Laundering Investigation!!!
On August 12, 2021, the police and other law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at a building occupied by Brenton Williams of [...]
Dominica: Venezuelan Charged for Money Laundering denied bail in Magistrate Court at Marigot
Edwin Daniel Reyes Garcia of Táchira, Venezuela, appeared before Magistrate Michael Laudat. According to the charge, on Sunday July 4, 2021, at Marigot, Garcia did [...]
Trinidad and Tobago Continues its Asset Recovery Drive: Cash Forfeited to the State!!
On Monday 21st February, 2022, Her Worship, Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle sitting in the Port of Spain 8th Magistrates Court, (via virtual hearing) [...]
Events & Activities
Past President (January 2019 – December 2019)
The seat is currently held by St Vincent and the Grenadines.
ARIN-CARIB is an informal network of practitioners and cooperating bodies focused on all aspects of confiscating the proceeds of crime.
The body aims to increase the effectiveness of members’ efforts on a multi-agency basis in depriving criminals of their illicit profits.
Launched in June 2017, ARIN-CARIB is dedicated to fostering international cooperation among law enforcement and judicial agencies in an effort to identify, disrupt, and dismantle organised criminal groups operating transnationally.
Jamaica’s focal personnel in ARIN-CARIB are Keith Darien, acting principal director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), a division of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, and Susan Watson-Bonner, acting director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the FID.
Since its membership in the group, Jamaica has benefited from joint informal cooperation in criminal investigations and asset recovery with other regional ARINs and several countries, including the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the United States, Japan, and Italy.
Two of these investigations have resulted in Jamaica recovering a total of US$500,000 from the disposal of properties forfeited from persons convicted of crimes in two overseas jurisdictions.
Several other cases involving millions of dollars are also being investigated or finalised, particularly in cooperation with the US. (article’s source)