Yves Klein presented on Asset Recovery Case Study and chaired the IBA Asset Recovery Subcommittee meeting at the 14th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference in Paris.
Yves Klein presented on ‘You Can’t Run a Ponzi Scheme without a Bank’ – The Victims Strike Back at the 14th OffshoreAlert Conference, Miami.
Yves Klein presented on L’entraide judiciaire internationale : quels sont les pouvoirs des juges en pratique ? at the Academy & Finance conference Le nouveau tournant de la place financière suisse, Geneva.
Yves Klein was interviewed by Valor Economico on the use of Swiss bank accounts to launder the proceeds of bribery and tax fraud.
Yves Klein presented on Case Study – Potential Liability of Banks at the ICC FraudNet Conference on Fraud, Corruption and Asset Recovery, Vienna
Yves Klein presented on Developments in civil asset recovery at the 13th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference, Paris.
Yves Klein was interviewed by Swissinfo in an article (The complex case of Tunisia’s blocked funds) about the difficulties faced in Switzerland to recover the Ben Ali funds and the new strategy developed to seek damages from facilitators, such as banks who laundered crime proceeds.
Yves Klein and James Bouzaglo were interviewed by Bloomberg and Le Temps (Tunisia Asks to Join HSBC Case to Get Embezzled Ben Ali Cash; La Tunisie réclame 114 millions de francs à HSBC pour avoir accueilli l’argent du clan Ben Ali) about the action they are bringing on behalf of the Government of Tunisia against HSBC, Geneva, for 120 million US dollars in damages in connection with the laundering of Ben Ali funds.
Yves Klein published an article for Who’s Who Legal Asset Recovery 2014 titled A Civil Perspective on Asset Recovery (with a focus on Swiss Law).
The Tribune de Genève reported on the hearings of the criminal trial of Abba Abacha, in which Enrico Monfrini, David Bitton and Yves Klein represented the Federal Republic of Nigeria, seeking the confiscation of hundreds of millions of US dollars frozen in Luxembourg (Me David Bitton : « Camus a écrit l'étranger, Abba Abacha a écrit l’absent ! » / Me David Bitton : "Camus wrote the stranger, Abba Abacha wrote the absent »).