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Hyderabad will host the second meeting of the BRICS Anti-Corruption Working Group on 4 and 5 August 2026.
The second meeting of the BRICS Expert Network on Asset Recovery will be held alongside it.
The meetings are organised by the Department of Personnel and Training.
They form part of India's BRICS Presidency programme.
Corruption becomes an international problem the moment proceeds cross a border. Recovering them requires the country where the offence occurred to trace the funds, obtain evidence from the jurisdiction holding them, secure a freezing order there, and finally have the assets confiscated and returned — each step depending on the cooperation of a foreign legal system with different standards of proof and its own procedural timetable. This is why asset recovery is slow and why expert networks matter: they build the working relationships and shared procedures between agencies that make mutual legal assistance function in practice rather than only on paper.
Simple Analogy: Tracing the money is detective work; getting it back is diplomacy conducted through courts in someone else's country.
GS Paper 2 > Important International Institutions and Groupings; Bilateral and Regional Groupings involving India
General Awareness > International Organisations
General Awareness > International Groupings
The grouping originally of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, functioning without a charter or permanent secretariat.
The process of tracing, freezing, confiscating and returning proceeds of corruption held in another jurisdiction.
Formal cooperation between states in gathering evidence and enforcing orders across borders.
The Department of Personnel and Training, India's nodal department for administrative reform and anti-corruption policy.