December 9, 2020

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...
Asset Recovery
International Cooperation
Legal Tools for Asset Recovery
StAR Publications
December 9, 2016

Getting the Full Picture on Public Officials: A How-To Guide for Effective Financial Disclosure

Financial disclosure, asset disclosure, income and asset declarations, wealth reporting, and interest declarations—despite the variations in name, all of these mechanisms are bound by a common and simple princi...
Asset Declarations
StAR Publications
September 18, 2012

Asset Recovery Guide Italy 2012

Country-specific Asset Recovery Guides contain tools and procedures on asset recovery measures applicable within the relevant country. They provide information regarding the legal tools employed by a country...
Asset Recovery
Asset Recovery Guides
December 6, 2012

On the Take: Criminalizing Illicit Enrichment to Fight Corruption

Illicit enrichment is criminalized under Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which defines it as the “significant increase in the assets of a public official that he or she c...
Legal Tools for Asset Recovery
StAR Publications