International institutions (anti-corruption)

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject: Other Institutions and Initiatives Anti-corruption. Syllabus:

1. The Group of States against Corruption
2. The International Anti-Corruption Academy
3. The Global Witness
4. The Global Financial Integrity
5. The International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities
6. The Financial Action Task Force
7. The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative
8. The World Economic Forum Partnering against the corruption Initiative
9. The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption

Sample of the sub-subject: Initiatives anti-corruption

Ethics, business, and religion.

Description of the Sub-Subject: International institutions dealing with anti-corruption

The Group of States against the corruption (GRECO)

The Council of Europe created in 1999 the Group of States of the Council of Europe Convention against the corruption so that its Member States could better combat corruption, both nationally and internationally.

The GRECO has created rules, the twenty guiding principles for the fight against the corruption, and two conventions:

1. The Civil Law Convention on Corruption
2. The Criminal Law Convention against the corruption.

The GRECO member countries are Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative is a joint venture between the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; it was created to supports global efforts to wipe out the tax havens considered safe for the corrupt funds.

1. The Philippines has recovered more than one billion dollars, in particular from Switzerland, stolen by Ferdinand Marco.
2. Peru had recovered over 174 million dollars stolen by Montesino.
3. The World Bank estimates that cross-border flow of proceeds from criminal activities, corruption and tax evasion amounting to a total of between 1 and 1.6 trillion dollars a year.

The Global Financial Integrity promotes policies, warranties, and agreements to curb the cross-border flow of illegal money, proposing solutions, facilitating Strategic Partnerships, and conducting groundbreaking research.

The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption