The forty-first (XXXXI) International Symposium on Economic Crime, sponsored by a wide range of international organisations and UK government agencies, took place at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

The symposium, which has attracted more than 1800 participants from over 100 different countries in recent years, this year brought together experts and academics to share their countries' unique cases in addressing one of the greatest threats to national and international economic stability and development. The main theme of this year's conference was asset control and strategies of addressing acquisitive criminal activity and suspicious assets.

One of the world's leading universities hosted a week of presentations and discussions, during which various academics, representatives of national institutions and members of non-governmental organisations shared their theoretical and practical visions for the future, political and legal strategies, national practices, and the perspectives for improving tools to prevent economic crime.

Surrounded by researchers, judges, prosecutors, officials, and representatives of private sector organisations from various countries, Skirmantas Bikelis, a Senior Research Fellow at the LCSS Law Institute, shared the Lithuanian case - the variety of tools and strategies to prevent money laundering and confiscate suspicious assets. The researcher and the LEKOSTRA project leader shared the results of the research and discussed the mixed civil approach to suspicious assets.

More about the project led by Skirmantas Bikelis.