A seminar on the criminalisation of corruption was organised in March 2007 in the framework of the Anti Corruption Network (ACN) for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The aim was to address some of the issues identified as more difficult to implement by the countries participating in the ACN initiative, and notably: liability of the legal entity, confiscation of proceeds and anti money laundering. The proceeds of the seminar are available in a compilation, that includes the concrete experiences o more...

Pursuant to resumed judicial assistance proceedings, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) has frozen the assets of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier and his associates in Switzerland.
The Duvalier case dates to 1986 when the Haitian authorities submitted an international judicial assistance request to Switzerland and requested the former leader's assets to be frozen. The block was eventually implemented in 2002. Since then, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), in c more...

The Swiss authorities concluded a 12 years long proceeding and decided to hand over to Mexico assets of Raul Salinas totalling approximately USD 74 million.
This case is part of Switzerland's efforts in the direction of preventing abuse of its financial centre and returning assets of criminal origin to the victims.

The Mexican authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into the activities of Raul Salinas and others in connection with money laundering and the embezzlement of public more...

Ten years after their adoption, the OECD Working Group on Bribery is undertaking a review of the OECD Instruments on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.

As an essential part of this review, the Working Group conducted an online public consultation between 10 January and 31 March 2008.
Stakeholders were asked to comment on a consultation paper which presents the major issues that have arisen in the course of monitoring implementation of thos more...

The Knowledge Center on Asset Recovery has been established by the International Center for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance. The online knowledge center offers free access to practical information to aid practitioners and others interested in the laws and treaties, mechanisms and techniques for recovering assets.
It is intended primarily to aid developing countries in their fight against corruption and build the capacity to carry out successful asset recovery (by way of coun more...