Policy Brief 8: It takes a network to defeat a network – What Collective Action practitioners can learn from research into corrupt networks

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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Biography

This Policy Brief distils recommendations for Collective Action practitioners based on empirical insights on certain forms of corruption involving private-sector actors.

Boosting Co-operation in Asset Recovery: Exploring the Potential of Private Sector Engagement and Public-Private Collaboration

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This summary report emerges from the 11th edition of the Lausanne Seminar, held on 2–3 September 2021.

The 11th Lausanne Seminar raised awareness of recent innovations with regard to the use of public-private collaboration to achieve asset recovery outcomes, providing participants with insights and tools for the development of public-private financial information-sharing partnerships in their respective jurisdictions.

This summary also compiles insights identified during the Seminar on:

Green Corruption - interview with Miljøkrim

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This in-depth interview with Professor Mark Pieth and Juhani Grossmann, Team Leader - Green Corruption programme at the Basel Institute on Governance, was conducted by Marianne Djupesland and Nina Norset Little of Økokrim, the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway.

It covers:

Thousands gather virtually to share knowledge of virtual assets-based money laundering and other crypto-enabled crimes

The 5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies on 7-8 December 2021, co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL and Europol, saw several thousand participants from the public and private sectors gathering to exchange knowledge on virtual assets-based money laundering and related risks in the crypto sphere.

Anti-corruption prosecutors under attack: a CoSP special event now open to all

Anti-corruption prosecutors are under attack everywhere. They are threatened, exposed to undue influence or hindered by abusive defence strategies.

At a special event at the Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), a panel of international experts will discuss measures that different stakeholders must take to protect prosecutors, and by extension protect the Convention.

OECD recommends anti-corruption Collective Action in its revised Anti-Bribery Recommendation

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has recommended the use of Collective Action to address corruption in its long-anticipated revised Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions ("2021 Anti-Bribery Recommendation").

Enriquecimiento ilícito: Una guía sobre las leyes que abordan los activos de procedencia inexplicable

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Enriquecimiento ilícito ofrece una guía completa sobre las leyes de enriquecimiento ilícito y su aplicación para perseguir los activos de procedencia inexplicable y recuperar las ganancias derivadas de la corrupción y otros delitos. El libro, de acceso libre, abarca tanto las leyes penales como las civiles de todo el mundo.