Krasnov: Russia has prepared an agreement to repay crime proceeds to BRICS countries

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has prepared a draft multilateral agreement between BRICS countries on the interaction of prosecutorial authorities on the return of assets of criminal origin from abroad. Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov announced this in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the G-20 prosecutorial summit. Immediately after arriving in Brazil, he held four bilateral meetings with BRICS colleagues from Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and India, and also met for the first time with the Prosecutor General of Singapore.

Therefore, during negotiations with the Brazilian Prosecutor General, Paulo Gonet Branco, the head of the Russian supervisory agency thanked his colleagues for the warm welcome and organization of the first prosecutorial forum in the G20 format. At the same time, according to him, an expert workshop on the topic of returning criminal property from abroad, held in May in St. Petersburg, has shown the high interest of all BRICS colleagues in improving this work.

“For these purposes, we have proactively prepared a draft multilateral agreement on the interaction of the prosecutorial authorities of the BRICS countries in this field,” said Krasnov, and asked his Brazilian colleague support this initiative.

And at a meeting with the National Director of the South African Criminal Prosecution Service, Shamila Batoji, he expressed confidence that the adoption of such a document would help build cooperation in a constructive way and most beneficial to all parties.

In return, Batoji said she would support the initiative and noted that “prosecutors are not politicians, although politics sometimes influence their decision-making in international level”. Prosecutors are first and foremost professional legal scholars who speak the same language. Supporting Krasnov's project, he also asked to listen to his proposal – specifically, expanding the form of litigation cooperation not only with BRICS SCO and G20. , but to the whole world.

At the meeting with Egyptian Prosecutor General Mohamed Shawki Ayad, Igor Krasnov also continued the anti-corruption theme. In particular, he reiterated that the Russian prosecutor's office plays a central role in implementing anti-corruption laws both domestically and within the framework of interaction with foreign colleagues. Mohamed Shawki Ayad. He explained to his colleagues that the new draft agreement not only provides for the return of criminal assets, but also takes into account the specifics of arrests and confiscation of cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets. , as well as the construction of unified algorithms. understandable to all parties for the common work of the countries of the association.

No less interesting was the first negotiation with the Attorney General of Singapore, Lucien Wong, who is known to be a member of the G20, but is not a member or candidate of BRICS. In particular, Wong expressed special interest after Krasnov's story about the development of Russian prosecutors in the use of neural networks in the fight against crime, as well as the formation of a full image promises of the prosecutor's office for the period 2030 – 2040. The main session of the first G20 Chief Prosecutors' Summit will begin in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Its goal is to create a global platform for dialogue between prosecutors general and discussion of strategic legal issues of our time. At the same time, the organizers believe that the main goal of the summit is to move away from the political situation to solve urgent problems of the fight against crime and switch to the professional language of litigation, even in the midst of Seemingly unfriendly countries.