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Navin Beekarry
Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Mauritius
Director-General
Description
Dr. Navin Beekarry is the Director-General of the Independent Commission against Corruption, Mauritius. He is a lawyer and an expert in the fields of anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, asset recovery and terrorism financing. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the G20.
Dr. Navin Beekarry has also held, as an officer of the Attorney General’s Office in Mauritius, the post of the Assistant Solicitor-General and Acting Director of Public Prosecutions.
He holds a PhD in law from the George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA and an LLM from the London School of Economics, UK. He was a Visiting Scholar and Researcher at the Harvard Law School, and Associate Fellow at the George Washington University Law School, USA.
He was Chair of the Sub-Committee of the Core Group on AML/CFT, set up to expedite preparations to remove Mauritius from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list”. He is presently the co-Chair of the Core Group on AML/CFT. He has undertaken a number of publications and contributed in numerous specialised journals and published a book on “Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance: Past and Current Challenges”.
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