A guest interview with Aidan Larkin, CEO of Asset Reality. Aidan presented on Demystifying crypto asset recovery at the 5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, a joint conference of the Basel Institute on Governance, Europol and INTERPOL on 8-9 December 2021.
Why do many countries still struggle with high levels of corruption, in spite of years of investment in anti-corruption programmes and even where the right laws, rules and institutions are in place?
We believe one reason is that anti-corruption laws and policies are too often focused narrowly on individuals, rather than networks of individuals.
Transparency International's practical guide to civic monitoring of public contracting projects emerges from the Integrity Pacts – Civil Control Mechanism for Safeguarding EU Funds project.
Under this project, between 2015 and 2021, 15 civil society organisations monitored 46 public contracting procedures in the EU.
What are the four biggest developments in anti-corruption Collective Action in the last years? And what are some examples of these around the world?
Why is international cooperation in asset recovery cases based on illicit enrichment/unexplained wealth laws a particularly challenging issue? This is a question we have received from many corners of the world following our publication last year of an open-access book on Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth.
The UK Anti-Corruption Forum is an alliance of UK business associations, professional institutions, civil society organisations and companies with interests in the domestic and international infrastructure, construction and engineering sectors. The Forum’s objective is to help create a business environment that is free from corruption. It address issues including:
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The Basel Institute has launched a Collective Action Helpdesk, a free advice service on Collective Action approaches to fight corruption and promote fair business.
Through the Helpdesk, our team provides free, practical and independent advice on how to work collaboratively across stakeholder groups to address shared corruption challenges and promote fair and responsible business.
A brand new eLearning course on our free Basel LEARN platform introduces the rich possibilities of open-source intelligence for investigations.
Drawing on broad stakeholder consultations, corruption case analysis and reviews of existing best practices, this guidance proposes concrete measures that companies should adopt to reduce corruption risks in their work with state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the oil, gas and mining industries. It also recommends measures SOEs can take to strengthen their anticorruption safeguards.
The guidance for private-sector companies has five parts:
The paper targets the nexus between corruption and money laundering. Scholars and practitioners recently observed how offshore financial centers and financial infrastructures have become central in facilitating corruption and other criminal activities.
Offshore vehicles often serve to conceal the connections between business people and politically exposed persons. Secrecy jurisdictions and service providers have emerged as key actors in these illicit schemes.
The paper explores the following questions: