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Welcome to Seize & Desist - the first podcast to explore the fascinating and complex world of seized assets.In this show, Asset Reality co-founder and CEO Aidan Larkin will be joined by some of the industry’s most influential and renowned experts to discuss their perspectives…

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 24, 2026

    Ep 38: Inside the Additional Protocol to the Warsaw Convention (opens the original)

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    Jill Thomas speaks with Cornel Calinescu, chair of the Council of Europe committee that negotiated the new Additional Protocol to the Warsaw Convention. They discuss who writes asset recovery standards and what they mean for front-line practitioners. Cornel takes us inside the Strasbourg negotiations, where 41 jurisdictions turned a small protocol into more than 40 technical articles. He explains how an open treaty creates a common language: definitions for crypto assets and VASPs, broader confi

  2. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Ep 37: From Wallet to Warrant: The Cases Rewriting Crypto Recovery (opens the original)

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    Jason Sandoval speaks with Jonathan Benton, former Head of the UK's Int. Corruption Unit at the National Crime Agency and now CEO and Founder of Intelligent Sanctuary, about the gap between criminal efficiency and institutional deliberation, and what it takes to close it in digital asset recovery. They discuss how immutable on-chain markers are used to identify wallet holders and support compliance with FATF's recommendations, as well as the legal questions being tested in court cases like Tulip

  3. Episode · Jul 31, 2026

    Ep 36: Beyond the Figures: Measuring What Matters in Asset Recovery (opens the original)

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    What happens to a seized mafia asset after the headlines fade? Dr Amber Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at UWE Bristol, has spent her career chasing that answer, starting with fieldwork in Calabria alongside anti-mafia organisations working to strip the 'Ndrangheta of its assets and its grip on local communities. She joins Jason Sandoval to unpack her 'Beyond the Figures' research with financial investigators across England and Wales and the gap between headline recoveries and what prac

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