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To this end, Switzerland financially supports the International Center for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Basel, since its foundation, as well as the Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR) jointly launched by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Bank (WB) in 2007. Moreover Switzerland organizes since 2001 informal meetings of government experts in Lausanne (Lausanne I and II in 2001, Lausanne III in 2006, Lausanne IV in 2008 and Lausanne V in 2010 in partnership with STAR). In June 2010, Switzerland organised together with StAR (UNODC et BM) an international conference on development and the recovery of assets.
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