By Lisa Miller, Head of Integrity Compliance, World Bank Group.
Speaking at the Basel Institute’s International Collective Action Conference on 25–26 June 2024, Lisa Miller explained why preventing fraud and corruption is essential for development banks like the World Bank Group to achieve their missions – and how engaging in Collective Action with other stakeholders can help.
This assessment seeks to understand the wide-reaching impact of maritime corruption on the industry and society.
Corruption in the timber trade is a serious threat, economically and environmentally. Forest-rich countries in Latin America are particularly exposed.
Those include Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, where our Green Corruption programme has been working with forestry authorities and environmental agencies to help them assess and mitigate corruption risks.
There is broad agreement that ensuring a just energy transition is key for achieving the trust and support from citizens needed to succeed with the green transition and the COP28 goal of tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030.
At a joint webinar with the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, leading legal experts from around the world explored the debates around the role of victims in negotiated settlements for economic crimes.
This in-person event with the Ethics and Compliance Switzerland Working Group on Anti-Bribery and Corruption looks at the topic of Green Corruption.
Our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) has launched a new training programme on illicit enrichment.
Delivered for the first time in Malawi to 33 practitioners from a range of government agencies, the programme is designed to help practitioners gain the knowledge and skills to investigate and prosecute cases of unexplained wealth in line with local legislation and to recover any unjustified assets.
Financial data is the foundation of any investigation into corruption and related financial crimes – but a lot of data is not available in a format that is easy to collect and analyse.
Investigators often waste many hours combining data from different formats, manually re-typing financial data contained in images or poor scans, or copy-pasting information from the internet. Not only is this inefficient and frustrating: it may lead to errors that will throw the investigation or prosecution off course.
This publication (in Spanish) focuses on the use of non-conviction based forfeiture legislation in Peru (Extinción de Dominio) to recover instrumentalities of crime. It is a collaborative effort of asset recovery experts of the Basel Institute on Governance under the Programa GFP Subnacional or Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, funded by the Swiss SECO Cooperation.