StAR supports international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds.
Restoring proceeds of corruption to their rightful owner is a development imperative. By returning corrupt funds, we can mobilize resources to reduce poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also the right thing to do.
Ghada Fathi Waly, Executive Director, UNODC
The StAR Resource Library
StAR's policy work is grounded in extensive practical expertise and innovative and in-depth knowledge products by its staff who are drawn from a number of disciplines.
Asset Recovery Handbook: A Guide for Practitioners, Second Edition
Designed as a how-to manual, the handbook guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen by corrupt leaders and hidden abroad. It provides common approaches to recovering stolen assets located in foreign jurisdictions, identifies the challenges that practitioners …
The Puppet Masters
This StAR report examines how bribes, embezzled state assets and other criminal proceeds are being hidden via legal structures – shell companies, foundations, trusts and others. The study also provides policy makers with practical recommendations on how to step up ongoing international efforts to uncover flows of criminal funds and …
Going For Broke
Going for Broke: Insolvency Tools to Support Cross-Border Asset Recovery in Corruption Cases sets out, for the first time, a step-by-step guide for asset recovery practitioners on the use of insolvency proceedings in recovering corruption proceeds. The report outlines the procedures associated with insolvency actions, explores challenges associated with this …
International Partnerships on Asset Recovery
By helping countries to establish systems to obtain information on the source, destination and ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of crime and corruption, asset recovery networks aim to help asset recovery specialists around the world to fight against corruption and
money laundering.
This directory first examines possible strategies for international cooperation and the …
The StAR Blog
And let's not mince words: we need to deal with the cancer of corruption. In country after country, it is the people who are demanding action on this issue…we all know that it is a major barrier to sound and equitable development. Corruption is a problem that all countries have to confront.
James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank Group
Upcoming Events
Special Session of the General Assembly (UNGASS) Against Corruption 2021
Date
Jun 2 - 4, 2021
Location
New York, USA
Lausanne Seminar 2021
Date
Sep 1 - 3, 2021
G20 Summit 2021
Date
Oct 30 - 31, 2021
Location
Attapeu, Laos
Corruption steals from the poor. It steals the promise of a bright future.
Jim Yong Kim, 12th President of the World Bank Group
