Tag Archives | StAR

Why UNCAC needs more civil society involvement: Lessons from the Arab spring

27 October 2011 in Anti-corruption Conventions, People power

Over 150 governments are meeting in Morocco this week to discuss the UN Convention against Corruption, the only truly global treaty on corruption, at a conference known as the Conference of States Parties which convenes to make critical decisions about the future of the convention and the global fight against corruption. The following is adapted […]

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How Can We Stop the Corrupt from Gaming the System? More Transparency

24 October 2011 in Measurement and Research, Private sector

Emile van der Does de Willebois, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank, writes about a new report on the ever-more sophisticated methods used to hide bribes, stolen assets and other criminal proceeds from the World Bank’s Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative. It’s easy to set up a company.  If I want to start a […]

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Asset recovery in the dock

8 June 2010 in Asset recovery, Financial Markets

This week senior members of the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative, a joint programme of the World Bank and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime meet in Paris to step up efforts to find and repatriate stolen assets. Here, Daniel Lebègue, president of TI France, explains what his organisation is doing on this issue. […]

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