Alan Bacarese

Alan was called to the Bar in 1988 and worked within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and its HQ’s Policy Directorate and European and International Division until 2007. A fluent Spanish speaker he has worked on large scale international cases involving Spain and other Spanish speaking countries. He led on domestic and international corruption and on high profile human rights issues.

Alan has worked extensively internationally as a member of the UK’s delegation to the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery and as a technical adviser to the UN, EU and other international organisations on corruption related work.  In 2007 Alan joined the newly created International Centre for Asset Recovery, with lead responsibility for money laundering, anti-corruption, financial investigations and asset recovery cases in a number of jurisdictions. This role also involved direct engagement with the leading international agencies in this field such as the StAR Initiative of the World Bank and UN Office of Drugs and Crime, as well as with investigators and lawyers in the International Criminal Court and the Global Fund.

Alan is a co-author of the leading UK Legal text book on Corruption and Misuse of Public Office (Oxford University Press) due to be published in September 2011 and ‘The Good Fraud Guide: the UK Handbook of Fraud Investigation, Prevention and Sanctions’ (Gower Publishing 2011).

Most recent cases include:

• Advising on domestic and international corruption cases, asset recovery and the drafting of Letters of Request in a SE Asian country.
• Advising and mentoring anti-corruption units in proactive investigations against corrupt judges in an East African country.
• Advising and mentoring on a number of large scale corruption cases in Uganda, where arrests and prosecutions are currently under way.
• Advising and mentoring on a number of prominent corruption cases in Kenya.