International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre
Mission statement: Coordinating a Global Law Enforcement Response to Grand Corruption
The International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC) was established in 2016, following country commitments made at the global Anti-Corruption Summit, to improve international cooperation on grand corruption investigations.
The IACCC is an international, multiagency team of investigators and intelligence analysts that provides dedicated operational support to grand corruption investigations. Any law enforcement agency or prosecuting authority in the world can refer a case to the IACCC for operational assistance, while still maintaining control of its own investigation.
The IACCC provides a unique law enforcement capability to improve international cooperation on the most serious corruption cases. The IACCC is the only organisation in the world with active law enforcement officers, who collate intelligence and evidence to directly support corruption investigations, whilst providing case specific mentoring and case coordination for asset recovery. This support specifically includes:
Informing investigations with intelligence collection by all IACCC members
Assisting the progression of investigations with sustained operational capabilities
Coordinating international strategies with options for law enforcement interventions
Case-specific mentoring and capacity building activities for investigation teams and prosecutors
Collecting a strategic picture of global grand corruption
Who we are
Members
Members of the IACCC have a strong track record of enforcing anti-corruption and bribery laws both domestically and internationally. These law enforcement agencies represent some of the global financial centres through which the proceeds of grand corruption can be deposited, providing a significant opportunity to gather relevant information for corruption investigations.
Each member deploys an officer to the IACCC office in London.
The nine current law enforcement agency members are:
- Australian Federal Police
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- National Directorate of Judicial Police of the French National Police
- Netherlands Fiscal Information and Investigation Service
- New Zealand Police
- Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau of the Republic of Singapore
- UK National Crime Agency
- USA Federal Bureau of Investigation
- US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations
Associate members
In 2020, a mechanism was introduced for law enforcement agencies or financial intelligence units to join the IACCC as associate members. These members do not deploy an officer to the IACCC office in London.
Associate members are agencies or units that the IACCC has had a historical operational relationship with and represent jurisdictions with significant financial sectors, providing a significant opportunity to gather information to the investigations that the IACCC is supporting.
The 14 current associate members are:
- Bermuda Police Service
- Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Commission
- Royal Cayman Islands Police Service
- Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit
- Guernsey Financial Intelligence Unit
- Isle of Man Financial Intelligence Unit
- Jersey Financial Intelligence Unit
- Malta Financial Intelligence Unit
- Mauritius Financial Intelligence Unit
- Mauritius Independent Commission Against Corruption
- New Zealand Serious Fraud Office
- Seychelles Anti-Corruption Commission
- Seychelles Financial Intelligence Unit
- Turks and Caicos Integrity Commission
Observers
Switzerland and Germany were involved in the design and establishment of the IACCC in 2016 and now act as observers, participating in IACCC Governance Board meetings and as other occasion’s demands.
Since 2020, Italy, France and Japan have acted as observers.
Operational partners
Since the IACCC became operational in 2017, Interpol has acted as an operational partner within the IACCC. Interpol has provided operational support on specific cases, generated case referrals and delivered regional capacity building activities.
What results have been achieved so far?
Due to operational sensitivities the IACCC cannot publicly announce results until the investigations supported are concluded. The IACCC is therefore required to anonymise results when sharing them publicly.
Since becoming operational in 2017 the IACCC has identified significant amounts of suspicious assets, supported their restraint and ultimately their forfeiture/confiscation. It takes many years for an international corruption investigation to move to asset restraint and forfeiture. The IACCC therefore expects more assets that were previously identified to be restrained and forfeited/confiscated over the coming years.
Since inception to May 2025, the IACCC has obtained the following results:
- £1.8 billion – total value of suspected stolen assets identified by the IACCC
- £641 million – total value of assets frozen on IACCC supported cases
- £70 million - total value of assets confiscated/forfeited on IACCC supported cases
- 380 cases – the number of referrals received by the IACCC
- 197 intelligence reports – the number of composite intelligence reports shared by the IACCC
- 114 ILORs – the number of MLA requests generated by affected states with IACCC assistance
Who can refer cases to the IACCC and how?
Any law enforcement or prosecuting authority in the world can refer a grand corruption investigation to the IACCC for support. Most cases referred to the IACCC are expected to come from agencies and authorities in countries most affected by grand corruption.
The IACCC does not affect the sovereignty of domestic investigations of other countries. A referring law enforcement agency always maintains control of its own investigation.
Since 2017, over 25% of the State Parties to UNCAC have referred cases of corruption to the IACCC. A large number of these agencies subsequently referred further cases to us.
Since becoming operational in 2017 the IACCC has contributed to investigations in all regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
Most cases are referred to the IACCC through the law enforcement agencies that comprise the IACCC members. The IACCC members have officers deployed across the world and referrals through these officers are the most common route.
