An ongoing challenge in seizing and confiscating proceeds of crime, is establishing a link between a specific asset and a particular crime, the years it can take to get from investigation to prosecution stage can...

The direct recovery of assets (DRA) can be a powerful tool in retrieving funds and property misappropriated through corruption. Consistent with Article 53 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCA...

It is undeniable that corruption has negative consequences for real people. While the international community as a whole has long focused on prosecution and confiscation of proceeds of crime, the reparation of da...

Asset recovery seeks to deprive corrupt individuals from benefiting from their crimes, deter future corruption, and return stolen assets to their rightful owners or compensate victims of corruption, including the...

Asset and interest disclosure of public officials is a well-established tool to prevent corruption and to help strengthen integrity in public administration. Countries use it to identify unexplained wealth, preve...

Several countries have in recent years introduced the unexplained wealth order (UWO) as a tool to improve recoveries of the proceeds of crime—particularly kleptocracy, the fruits of corruption by government off...

This publication focuses on the benefits of interagency cooperation between tax authorities and law enforcement agencies working on preventing, detecting, and recovering the illicit financial flows derived from t...

This report analyzes a family of related corporate arrangements in which nominees act as agents of principals in control of shell companies. It focuses on how nominee arrangements can be abused to facilitate fina...