Asset Recovery Handbook
A Guide for Practitioners
A Guide for Practitioners
The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)
is a partnership between the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that supports international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds. StAR works with developing countries and financial centers to prevent the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and to facilitate more systematic and timely return of stolen assets.
Corruption steals from the poor. It steals the promise of a brighter future.
—Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group
FAQs
Follow Us on TwitterArab Forum on Asset Recovery
Doha, Qatar Sept 11-13, 2012
The Forum is co-organized by Qatar, the U.S. 2012 presidency of the G8 and the StAR initiative. It aims to bring together the G8, Regional countries, Deauville Partner countries, and other
The Puppet Masters
Database of Grand Corruption Cases
The Database of Grand Corruption Cases is a compilation of large-scale corruption cases from 1980 to 2011, involving the misuse of at least one legal entity or legal arrangement to obscure its
Public Office, Private Interests
Accountability through Income and Asset Disclosure
The first global study of financial disclosure laws and practices, “Public Office, Private Interests" calls for renewed commitment to income and asset disclosure to deter the use of public
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International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA)
The International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) convened at the World Bank for two days in June 2012 for a series of meetings and workshops. The meeting focused on strengthening three
The StAR-INTERPOL Asset Recovery Focal Points Initiative
The Global Focal Point Platform was launched in January 2009 by INTERPOL together with the StAR Initiative to provide a global network of asset recovery expert practitioners, accessible through a
PSD Blog - blogs.worldbank.org | February 5 2013
Bringing the banks to account
It began as a trickle but has turned into a flood. HSBC, Barclays, Wachovia, JP Morgan, and UBS have all been engulfed by waves of scandal involving, money laundering, fixing
Publications
On the Take: Criminalizing Illicit Enrichment to Fight Corruption
'On the Take: Criminalizing Illicit Enrichment to Fight Corruption' is the first comprehensive survey of illicit enrichment laws and provides a broad analysis of the challenges in both drafting and implementing the
Barriers to Asset Recovery: An Analysis of the Key Barriers and Recommendations for Action
Barriers to Asset Recovery, released on June 21, 2011 by the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), advises policy makers on reforms that
News
The Economist | May 11 2013
Making a hash of finding the cash: Why have Arab countries recovered so little of the money thought to have been nabbed by their former regimes?
Events
October 13 2012
G20/FATF Meeting on the Proceeds of Corruption
The G20 and FATF will be holding a meeting on the proceeds of corruption on October 13, 2012. The meeting will
