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Recovering Stolen Assets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Recovering Stolen Assets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Development efforts will remain frustrated so long as corrupt leaders continue to steal their countries' wealth and dispose of these ill-gotten gains in foreign jurisdictions. The prevention of such looting, and the recovery of the stolen assets are thus critical development issues and a cornerstone of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003) (UNCAC). However, to date experience with asset recovery is limited, and a number of legal and other obstacles continue to impede progress. This is the first comprehensive work on asset recovery, written by renowned practitioners and academics representing different legal systems and countries, all of whom have extensive experience in the asset recovery field. The authors notably discuss the 'success stories' of the past (the recovery of the assets of Sani Abacha, Ferdinand Marcos and Vladimiro Montesinos) and the concrete challenges for the future with regard to search, seizure, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets. The book also provides perspectives on the role of technical assistance and donors in asset recovery and the likely impact of the UNCAC.

Asset Tracing & Recovery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1166

Asset Tracing & Recovery

Globalization has given criminals an unlimited number of possibilities especially in offshore areas to hide deprived assets. International experts of FraudNet deliver comprehensive and crucial knowledge about the possibilities of asset tracing and recovery, including: an introduction to the methods of fraud; international available remedies; supranational legal sources; basics of asset tracing and recovery in common law and civil law; respective national laws, regulations and proceedings of over 40 countries -- Back cover.

Decadent Developmentalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Decadent Developmentalism

Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

The CISG and its Impact on National Legal Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The CISG and its Impact on National Legal Systems

  • Categories: Law

In force in 70 countries around the world and covering more than two thirds of world trade, the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is considered to be the most successful convention promoting international trade. According to many commentators, this success is due, among others, to the fact that the Convention does not directly impact on the domestic law of the various legal systems, as it applies only to international - as opposed to purely domestic - contracts. The Convention, in other words, does not impose changes in the domestic law, which makes it easier for States to adopt the Convention. This does not mean, however, that the Convent...

Encyclopedia Corruption in the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Encyclopedia Corruption in the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-16
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

The publication of this encyclopedia by Professor Judivan J. Vieira, PhD, is driven more by mission than editorial pursuits. The research is composed of five volumes, and it is the result of the author’s willful work in a field of study that has been his passion since his graduation in law school in 1993. Corruption is inherent to the human being, and according to the author, it is a metastatic cancer capable of destroy any social doctrine, even our democracies. Throughout the five volumes, Judivan Vieira analyzes the various perspectives of this social “disease” that menaces hegemonic and underdeveloped countries. In the last volume of this encyclopedia, the author offers the solution to remediate this disease of the soul, which prevents social well-being and relegates us to live in formal democracies that do not provide the minimum of social dignity peoples of the world deserves.

Left Out of the Bargain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

Left Out of the Bargain

Over the past decade, countries have increasingly used settlements that is, any procedure short of a full trial to conclude foreign bribery cases and have imposed billions in monetary sanctions. There exists a gap in knowledge, however, regarding settlement practices around the world and the disposition of these monetary sanctions notably through the lens of recovery of stolen assets. Left out of the Bargain, a study by the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), provides an overview of settlement practices by civil and common law countries that have been active in the fight against foreign bribery. Using the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) as its point of reference, th...

Operation Car Wash
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Operation Car Wash

A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022 Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President. Through engrossing first-hand testimony, Pontes and Anselmo recount the uphill battle faced by the Federal Police in apprehending Brazil's white-collar criminals, in a country where the war on drugs has become a convenient distraction for the politicians and businessmen extracting billions of dollars from the public purse. A historical record that reads like a political police thriller, Operation Car Wash is also a warning to the world: demonstrating how easily institutionalized crime can take root in a nation, and how difficult it can be to eradicate.

A New Megasport Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

A New Megasport Legacy

  • Categories: Law

Megasports are now demonstrating a capacity to leave what this book calls a human rights and anti-corruption legacy: norms, practices, policies, or laws that have application beyond sport, are likely to endure after the event, and the implementation of which is accelerated by hosting the event. This book analyzes existing megasport policies and practices, then suggests reforms to acknowledge and support these new legacies.--

Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 702

Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-09
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing provides an up-to-date overview and critical analysis of terrorism financing, focusing on tactics and practical measures directed at preventing money laundering and countering the flow of terrorism funding. In doing so, the book details some of the major doctrines, outlining policies of states and key regional and global partnerships in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. Chapters bring together a diverse range of expert scholars and practitioners who specialise in theoretical principles, utilising empirical research and an analysis of the cross-national networks and cross-group collaborations that underpin the illicit activities that fund such groups. The book serves as the most current and comprehensive resource in the area of countering the financing of terrorism and organised crime—incorporating regional and group-specific approaches, challenges, and consequences. This focus encompasses legal measures, social policies, and military operations and security force responses by states and non-state actors to assemble the most up-to-date counter-terrorist financing information into a single volume.

O ministro que mudou a Justiça
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 139

O ministro que mudou a Justiça

Conheça a história de Márcio Thomaz Bastos nas palavras do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e de profissionais e amigos que dividiram com ele seus momentos mais decisivos, como a grande reforma da história do Judiciário brasileiro. Márcio Thomaz Bastos foi um dos advogados mais destacados de que o mundo jurídico brasileiro já teve notícia. Sua trajetória de vida se confunde com os momentos capitais da história recente. Nos anos 1970, começou a atuar na Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil. Nesse período de regime político fechado e forte repressão política, aproximou-se dos movimentos sociais e passou a defender os metalúrgicos do ABC, época em que conheceu o sindicalista Lui...