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Libya’s Top 5 Corruption Scandals

28 July 2014 in Africa and Middle East, Cost of Corruption, Impunity, Oil and gas, Politics and government

Renewed factional fighting in Libya has claimed more than 150 lives in the past two weeks. The oil rich country is on the verge of becoming a failed state with a powerless central government. This is the haunting legacy of Muammar Gaddafi’s corrupt regime that has left the country in a state of constant violence […]

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G8 action on asset recovery for the Arab world

23 May 2012 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Asset recovery, Financial Markets

The G8 have just released an ambitious and comprehensive asset recovery action plan as part of the Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in Transition. It is timely and necessary to reinforce the momentum behind stolen asset recovery processes. The first step by G8 countries was to freeze the accounts of the authoritarian leaders Mubarak, Ben […]

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