Quick Guide 3: Integrity and anti-corruption compliance for SMEs

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance and Collective Action, explains that anti-corruption compliance doesn’t have to be complicated. Even small and mid-sized companies can easily build the basics of an effective anti-corruption compliance programme.

Find out five simple things a business leader can do to raise integrity in an organisation.

Quick Guide 1: Cryptocurrencies and money laundering investigations

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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This quick guide to cryptocurrencies and money laundering investigations addresses the use of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Monero to facilitate serious crimes or to launder stolen money. It was originally published in March 2019 and updated in August 2023.

It explores, in brief:

Kosovan anti-corruption officials explore new asset confiscation law during ICAR training workshop

An intensive Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery training programme by our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) training team in Kosovo last week had a novel twist: the participants had the opportunity to discuss and explore ways to use the country’s new Law of Extended Powers on Confiscation of Assets.

Broken beamers and more: shining a light on business continuity plans and compliance

Swiss politician and businesswoman Magdalena Martullo-Blocher once confronted her managers with a strange question: “What do you do when the beamer [projector] breaks down?” She was looking for creative solutions to a relatively minor problem, though this seemed to baffle her team when she asked the question.

She certainly wasn’t demanding a business continuity plan, which is on an altogether different scale compared to a broken projector.

New report explores social network analysis applied to wildlife trafficking

A new report sets out preliminary findings from the social network analysis of wildlife trafficking networks in East Africa.

It first explores the structure and characteristics of social networks engaged in wildlife trafficking, suggesting that they operate as a form of transnational organised crime and remarkably like a business enterprise. In terms of supply chains, both bottom-up and top-down mechanisms are evident.