The Department against Transnational Organized Crime has extensive experience assisting OAS member states to improve their asset management systems since 2008.

Through the implementation of the BIDAL Project, it has provided technical assistance to states interested in developing and improving systems for the identification, location, and management of seized and forfeited assets.

The BIDAL project focuses on crimes related to organized crime and helps OAS member states improve their legislation and their administrative and management practices related to assets that are the object, instruments or effects of crime.

Between 2008-2009, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay were selected as the first beneficiaries of the project. In a second stage (2011-2012), the beneficiaries were El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. In a third stage (2014-2016) Brazil and Paraguay were beneficiaries.

Through situational diagnoses, the project identified the strengths and weaknesses of each of the processes, determining actions to follow to move towards a possible solution through the development of technical recommendations to improve or strengthen its standards and processes or the creation of systems more efficient forfeiture procedures, including the management of seized and forfeited assets in each country.

Currently, the DDOT is managing the extension of the project in Uruguay and its implementation in Costa Rica.