Asset Recovery Handbook
A Guide for Practitioners
A Guide for Practitioners
The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)
is a partnership between the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that supports international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds. StAR works with developing countries and financial centers to prevent the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and to facilitate more systematic and timely return of stolen assets.
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There should be no safe haven for those who steal from the poor, Helping developing countries recover the stolen money will be key to fund social programs and put corrupt leaders on notice that they will not escape the law.
—Robert Zoellick, eleventh president of the World Bank Group
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Corruption CasesArab Forum on Asset Recovery
Doha, Qatar Sept 11-13, 2012
The Forum is co-organized by Qatar, the U.S. 2012 presidency of the G8 and the StAR initiative. It aims to bring together the G8, Regional countries, Deauville Partner countries, and other
The Puppet Masters
Database of Grand Corruption Cases
The Database of Grand Corruption Cases is a compilation of large-scale corruption cases from 1980 to 2011, involving the misuse of at least one legal entity or legal arrangement to obscure its
Public Office, Private Interests
Accountability through Income and Asset Disclosure
The first global study of financial disclosure laws and practices, “Public Office, Private Interests" calls for renewed commitment to income and asset disclosure to deter the use of public
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International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA)
The International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) convened at the World Bank for two days in June 2012 for a series of meetings and workshops. The meeting focused on strengthening three
The StAR-INTERPOL Asset Recovery Focal Points Initiative
The Global Focal Point Platform was launched in January 2009 by INTERPOL together with the StAR Initiative to provide a global network of asset recovery expert practitioners, accessible through a
blog.worldbank.org | April 2 2012
Fighting Corruption
: The Politically Exposed Persons Factor
Last month, the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering (FATF), revised its 40+9
Publications
The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It
This new StAR report examines how bribes, embezzled state assets and other criminal proceeds are being hidden via legal structures – shell companies, foundations, trusts and others. The study also provides policy makers
Barriers to Asset Recovery: An Analysis of the Key Barriers and Recommendations for Action
Barriers to Asset Recovery, released on June 21, 2011 by the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, advises policy makers on reforms that will
Asset Recovery Handbook: A Guide for Practitioners
Developing countries lose between $20 billion and $40 billion each year to bribery, embezzlement, and other corrupt practices. Over the past 15 years only $5 billion has been recovered and returned. A new handbook seeks to help
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From the Newsroom
The Economist | October 29 2011
Grand Schemes: A World Bank report blasts the abuse of company registration for corrupt ends
U.S. Department of the Treasury | December 2 2011
Remarks by Assistant Secretary Daniel Glaser to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Events
October 13 2012
G20/FATF Meeting on the Proceeds of Corruption
The G20 and FATF will be holding a meeting on the proceeds of corruption on October 13, 2012. The meeting will
September 11 2012
Arab Forum on Asset Recovery
The inaugural Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, organized within the framework of the Deauville Partnership with Arab
