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It also aims to further illuminate the nexus between corruption and money laundering and the role of hidden and offshore financial infrastructures in facilitating the illicit schemes. \n\nThe research used a combination of social network analysis and network ethnography techniques to explore the following questions: \n\n\n- How do money laundering activities and offshore financial infrastructures sustain corruption? \n- Who are the key actors involved, how do they interact and what is their division of labour? \n- How do actors and clusters govern the social-financial web of relations? \n\n\nAnswering these questions with empirical evidence related to a specific case makes it possible to better understand how the connection between corruption and money laundering using offshore financial infrastructure works. It also supports the emerging understanding of corruption as a collective, transnational and financially advanced phenomenon. \n\n### About this report\n\nThis paper is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type[]=255\">ISSN: 2624-9650\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nIt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). \n\nSuggested citation: Costa, J., 2021. *Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: an analysis of the Toledo–Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography*. Working Paper 36, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-net…\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,208,345],"Public Governance",[248,347],"Working Paper","2021-07-08","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb9766eed-37a9-40e2-97d0-3b05e149b633?width=600&height=840",[351,354],{"url":352,"caption":353},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-analysis-of-the-toledo-odebrecht-case-illuminates-the-complex-transnational-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes-2051"," Summary \u002F blog by author",{"url":355,"caption":356},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Working%20Paper"," View all Working Papers",[],[359],{"authors_id":360},{"id":361,"name":362},304,"Jacopo Costa",[],[365,367,371,375,377],{"tags_id":366},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":368},{"id":369,"name":370},1309,"Informality",{"tags_id":372},{"id":373,"name":374},1373,"Corruption prevention",{"tags_id":376},{"id":228,"name":229},{"tags_id":378},{"id":379,"name":380},973,"Corruption",[382],1833,[21,234,384],"Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[34],"2022-04-27T11:53:43.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:41.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes",{"id":390,"slug":391,"title":392,"status":6,"nid":393,"year":274,"body":394,"external":19,"topic":395,"language":34,"type":396,"date_published":397,"image":398,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":399,"link_external":401,"authors":405,"countries":412,"tags":413,"pdf":418,"topics":421,"featured":19,"languages":422,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":56,"date_created":423,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":424,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":425},2229,"quick-guide-28-money-laundering-through-gambling-industry","Quick Guide 28: Money laundering through the gambling industry",2283,"This quick guide sets out how criminals abuse the gambling industry to launder illicit funds. It includes numerous recent case studies to illustrate different ways of laundering money in casinos, online gambling websites, bars and clubs, as well as physical and online sports betting services.\n\nThe guide also looks at what gambling businesses and public authorities can do to better prevent and detect money laundering in this industry.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[208],[39],"2022-09-09","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F99ab83e1-666d-4705-b8dc-6214b40274b9?width=600&height=840",[400],{"url":25,"caption":26},[402],{"url":403,"caption":404},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=150"," View on Basel LEARN (html)",[406,410],{"authors_id":407},{"id":408,"name":409},510,"Isys Lam",{"authors_id":411},{"id":220,"name":221},[],[414,416],{"tags_id":415},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":417},{"id":228,"name":229},[419,420],2269,2270,[234],[34],"2022-09-08T22:04:02.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:01.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-28-money-laundering-through-gambling-industry",{"id":427,"slug":428,"title":429,"status":6,"nid":430,"year":431,"body":432,"external":19,"topic":433,"language":434,"type":435,"date_published":436,"image":437,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":438,"link_external":440,"authors":444,"countries":449,"tags":450,"pdf":455,"topics":459,"featured":19,"languages":460,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":56,"date_created":461,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":462,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":463},1828,"quick-guide-19-offshore-structures-and-beneficial-ownership","Quick Guide 19: Offshore structures and beneficial ownership",1913,2020,"This quick guide by Phyllis Atkinson looks at how criminals manipulate and misuse corporate vehicles in offshore jurisdictions to launder money. It focuses on the meaning of \"corporate vehicle\" and \"offshore\" and other related concepts such as beneficial ownership. It also gives an example of how a trust, which is one common type of corporate vehicle in the vast \"offshore ecosystem\", can be used for illicit purposes. \n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[208],"English, Portuguese, Spanish",[39],"2020-11-12","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F26ee76bd-9e3a-4bb5-adc6-c253942fd190?width=600&height=840",[439],{"url":25,"caption":26},[441],{"url":442,"caption":443},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=49"," View on LEARN (EN, ES, PT)",[445],{"authors_id":446},{"id":447,"name":448},305,"Phyllis Atkinson",[],[451,453],{"tags_id":452},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":454},{"id":228,"name":229},[456,457,458],1865,1866,1867,[234],[34,36,37],"2022-04-27T11:54:02.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:44.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-19-offshore-structures-and-beneficial-ownership",{"id":465,"slug":466,"title":467,"status":6,"nid":468,"year":469,"body":470,"external":19,"topic":7,"language":7,"type":471,"date_published":473,"image":474,"citation":475,"publisher":17,"link_internal":476,"link_external":480,"authors":484,"countries":489,"tags":498,"pdf":509,"topics":511,"featured":19,"languages":513,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":57,"date_created":514,"user_updated":515,"date_updated":516,"main_points":517,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":518},2443,"cs-14","Case Study 14: Madagascar: a landmark conviction for money laundering linked to environmental crime",2948,2026,"This Case Study demonstrates how international cooperation and the follow-the-money approach revealed a transnational criminal network trafficking endangered species and led to Madagascar’s first money laundering conviction related to wildlife trafficking.\n\n### About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, [ISSN 2813-3900](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcase-studies). It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License ([CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F)).\n\nPhoto: [Studio Sifaka](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.studiosifaka.org\u002Farticles\u002Factualites\u002Fitem\u002F8084-plus-de-mille-tortues-et-pres-d-une-cinquantaine-de-lemuriens-vivants-saisis-en-thailande.html) \u002F khaosodenglish (used with permission).\n\nThe Case Study series offers practitioners insights into interesting and precedent-setting cases involving corruption and asset recovery. This case relates to the Basel Institute's [Green Corruption programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption).\n\nThe development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n",[472],"Case Study","2026-03-31","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fea8361c6-bffd-4cfd-9119-7bc822b39af7?width=600&height=840","Rakotondramanana, Joseph. 2026. “Madagascar: a landmark conviction for money laundering linked to environmental crime.” Case Study 14, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-14",[477],{"url":478,"caption":479},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Case%20Study","View all Case Studies",[481],{"url":482,"caption":483},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=369","View online on Basel LEARN",[485],{"authors_id":486},{"id":487,"name":488},567,"Joseph Rakotondramanana",[490,494],{"countries_id":491},{"id":492,"name":493},139,"Madagascar",{"countries_id":495},{"id":496,"name":497},213,"Thailand",[499,503,505],{"tags_id":500},{"id":501,"name":502},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":504},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":506},{"id":507,"name":508},1193,"Financial investigations",[510],2497,[512],"Green Corruption",[34],"2026-06-01T22:10:26.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2026-06-02T21:14:32.000Z","- In 2024, Thai authorities carried out the country's largest ever single wildlife seizure, intercepting 48 lemurs and more than 1,000 tortoises endemic to Madagascar.\n- The seizure triggered a joint Thai-Malagasy investigation that traced smuggling routes through Indonesia, uncovered a transnational criminal network and led to arrests in both countries, the freezing of bank accounts and the confiscation of vehicles and vessels.\n- In 2025, the Anti-Corruption Court in Antananarivo convicted 10 individuals for trafficking in protected species, money laundering and criminal conspiracy. Sentences of up to 10 years in prison were handed down, alongside approximately USD 8.7 million in customs penalties and damages. This is the first time Madagascar has applied the offence of money laundering to a wildlife trafficking case.\n- Training on financial investigations by the Basel Institute on Governance, together with the facilitation of information exchange and peer learning among enforcement practitioners, contributed to this landmark result. The Malagasy authorities are now better equipped to overcome structural challenges in applying a “follow-the-money” approach to organised environmental crime, including limited technical expertise, insufficient resources and the complexity of cross-border financial investigations.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-14",{"id":520,"slug":521,"title":522,"status":6,"nid":523,"year":205,"body":524,"external":19,"topic":525,"language":34,"type":526,"date_published":528,"image":529,"citation":530,"publisher":14,"link_internal":531,"link_external":537,"authors":541,"countries":548,"tags":557,"pdf":564,"topics":565,"featured":19,"languages":566,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":56,"date_created":567,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":387,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":568},2309,"organisational-forms-corruption-networks-odebrecht-toledo-case","Organisational forms of corruption networks: the Odebrecht-Toledo case",2514,"Actors in grand corruption schemes often conspire and deliberately create sophisticated networks to extract huge amounts of public resources from government systems. They hide such conspiracies behind hybrid formal\u002Finformal arrangements.\n\nUsing a mixed methods approach, this study investigates the corruption scheme initiated by former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht Group. We argue that separating the networks of the client (Odebrecht) and the agent (Toledo) sides provides analytical leverage for studying complex corrupt arrangements.\n\nWe found that the organisational forms designed by corrupt actors on either side were essential to ensuring the secret and safe operation of the network. Introducing the concept of organisational form into corruption research helps better understand the nature of these networks. We also found that different parts of the networks are shaped by different types of corruption. The article concludes with implications for practice.",[345],[527],"Article","2023-10-04","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F1501db41-7465-47a0-848a-b3d22931d366?width=600&height=840","David Jancsics & Jacopo Costa (29 Sep 2023): Organizational forms of corruption networks: the Odebrecht-Toledo case, International Public Management Journal, DOI: 10.1080\u002F10967494.2023.2260368",[532,534],{"url":388,"caption":533}," See related paper: Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: an analysis of the Toledo–Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography",{"url":535,"caption":536},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fresearch-case-3"," See related paper: Exposing the networks behind transnational corruption and money laundering schemes",[538],{"url":539,"caption":540},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tandfonline.com\u002Fdoi\u002Ffull\u002F10.1080\u002F10967494.2023.2260368","View article at Taylor & Francis Online",[542,546],{"authors_id":543},{"id":544,"name":545},526,"David Jancsics",{"authors_id":547},{"id":361,"name":362},[549,553],{"countries_id":550},{"id":551,"name":552},29,"Brazil",{"countries_id":554},{"id":555,"name":556},171,"Peru",[558,560],{"tags_id":559},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":561},{"id":562,"name":563},967,"Organised crime",[],[384],[34],"2023-10-04T10:04:39.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Forganisational-forms-corruption-networks-odebrecht-toledo-case",{"id":393,"slug":570,"title":571,"status":6,"nid":572,"year":205,"body":573,"external":19,"topic":574,"language":34,"type":575,"date_published":577,"image":578,"citation":14,"publisher":17,"link_internal":579,"link_external":585,"authors":586,"countries":589,"tags":594,"pdf":603,"topics":605,"featured":19,"languages":606,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":56,"date_created":607,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":608,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":535},"research-case-3","Research Case Study 3: Exposing the networks behind transnational corruption and money laundering schemes",2454,"Corruption is increasingly understood as a form of collective, social behaviour. It slips easily across borders and involves sophisticated financial strategies and transactions to launder the stolen money. \n\nYet the nexus between corruption and money laundering is poorly understood. So too are the structures, functions and mechanisms that enable these crimes.\n\nWe applied analytical tools to reveal the complex networks behind a corruption and money laundering scheme involving Odebrecht and Peru’s former president. The insights can support strategic approaches to fight transnational corruption.",[345],[576],"Research Case Study","2023-05-31","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fca5d66b9-58f2-42fd-afa6-1d3224f01f9d?width=600&height=840",[580,582],{"url":388,"caption":581}," View related Working Paper",{"url":583,"caption":584},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Research%20Case%20Study"," View all research case studies",[],[587],{"authors_id":588},{"id":361,"name":362},[590,592],{"countries_id":591},{"id":555,"name":556},{"countries_id":593},{"id":551,"name":552},[595,597,599,601],{"tags_id":596},{"id":77,"name":78},{"tags_id":598},{"id":369,"name":370},{"tags_id":600},{"id":373,"name":374},{"tags_id":602},{"id":228,"name":229},[604],2318,[384],[34],"2023-05-31T10:04:29.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:06.000Z",1780676563068]