Investigators and prosecutors learn to follow the money in forest crime
A three-day workshop in Blantyre trained forestry investigators and prosecutors in financial investigation, asset tracing and forfeiture.
From 12 to 14 August 2026, investigators and prosecutors met in Blantyre for a three-day workshop on financial investigation in forest crime. Working through moot cases, they practised bank and mobile-money analysis, reading call-detail records, link analysis, asset tracing and forfeiture.
The workshop was part of IWT144, a project of the Basel Institute on Governance funded by the UK Government. It supports the Department’s move from an approach based on offences and seizures to one that also goes after the money and assets behind forest crime.
Also under way
Four priority forestry cases are receiving financial-investigation and asset-tracing support.
Sixteen officers have been earmarked for induction into the Department’s new Prosecution Section.
A Green Corruption Case Coordination Working Group brings together the Department of Forestry, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Financial Intelligence Authority, the Malawi Police Service and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A digital Forestry Case Information Management System is being developed.
