• New ICC FraudNet Global Annual Report launches today

  • Includes Martin Kenney article on secrecy orders

ICC Fraudnet today published its 2024 Global Annual Report featuring an exclusive contribution from Martin Kenney on secrecy orders.

The Fourth Global Report takes as its theme “Fraud Frontiers: Emerging Threats and Innovative Solutions in Fraud & Asset Recovery” and comprises some 25 original articles authored by 42 contributing authors from some 20 jurisdictions.

ICC FraudNet Members and Strategic Partners are regularly involved in the most high-profile and complex international asset recovery and fraud cases. Their global experience and reach makes for highly insightful expert perspective – making this compendium essential reading for those practising in, or researching, this field.

Inside the report, our Head of Firm Martin Kenney has authored an article on Secrecy Orders. As Martin writes:

Secrecy orders are an underused tool in the asset recovery toolkit. Sealing orders, gagging injunctions and anonymisation orders mitigate the risk of counterparties, or bad actors, being put on notice of a concealed asset recovery strategy. Particularly in complex fraud cases with sophisticated counterparties, secrecy orders can prevent asset dissipation before assets can be found and frozen.

To read more, download the full report here.