Companies
hologram manufacturers)
Roman Vanek joined the Swiss Federal Administration after graduating with a law degree from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Today, Roman is Chief of the Division Identity Documents & Central Bureaus for Firearms and Explosives. He is responsible for the Swiss passport and identity card, including development and research of future applications. This task also requires him to look at trends in falsifications and misuse of documents.
Roman is the representative of Switzerland on the Technical Advisory Group on the Traveller Identification Program (TAG/TRIP) of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and on the Article 6 Committee of the European Commission. Between May 2012 and December 2016, he chaired the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD) Board. He is a member of the ICAO PKD Executive Body since 2017.
Document fraud often goes together with other criminal activities such as terrorism, human trafficking, and illegal migration. Switzerland has developed a tool to collect and analyse document seizures at its borders, domestic control points, and embassies abroad. This presentation will provide a quick look at the tool itself, but also highlight the current findings, trends registered, and efforts made to detect series of and similarities in fraudulent documents.