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National Integrity System Bericht Schweiz
On February 7th 2012, Transparency International published the National Integrity Systems Assessment for Switzerland. The Basel Institute on Governance contributed to this study through research and the compilation of three of the twelve pillar-chapters.
The National Integrity System (NIS)...
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Non-State Actors in Asset Recovery
Non-state actors are of fundamental importance in the prevention and combating of corruption within asset recovery processes. Their roles and responsibilities were considered during an experts' meeting hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance and the International Anti-Corruption Academy in...
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Mark Pieth, Harmonising Anti-Corruption Compliance
New anti-corruption laws and intensified law enforcement, in particular in OECD Member States, are motivating companies to implement sound anti-corruption compliance programmes. They will help reduce risk, but they may also serve as a business argument. Yet, companies are increasingly voicing the...
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Capacity Building in Asset Recovery
Corruption is one of the endemic evils in today’s world. The phenomenon has negative impacts on world poverty, democratic governance, progress and development. According to the World Bank, USD 20 to 40 billion is lost annually by developing nations because of corruption. With the adoption of the...
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New translation released: Tracing stolen assets - A practitioner's handbook
Каждый год коррупция генерирует доходы в...
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Annual Report 2010
The year 2010 was another eventful year for the Basel Institute on Governance (hereafter referred to as "The Institute"). The Institute acquired a number of new projects, in particular in the area of capacity building for asset recovery and in the area of industry standard setting. This included a...
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New book released: Tracing stolen assets - A practitioner's handbook
Corruption generates billions of dollars each year. A large portion of the assets acquired through acts of corruption can never be recovered by victim countries for the simple reason: it was not possible to locate them. The profits generated by crime are often transferred to financial centres in an...
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New book released: Countering Terrorist Financing
Terrorists need money to commit acts of violence and sustain their operations. Measures to combat terrorism therefore aim to prevent terrorists from raising, moving and using funds or other assets. The effectiveness - and the fairness - of these measures were considered at the second 'Giessbach'...
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e-learning module: Interactive Corruption Scenario
The interactive corruption case scenario is designed to help you learn the basics of an asset recovery case. You can interactively participate in the gradual unraveling of a corruption case.
The case involves stolen assets that have to be traced and frozen. The case is purely fictional but certain...
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2012
05/04
Council of Europe Regional Training Programme in Syracuse, Sicily (March 2012)
The success of large scale money laundering and corruption investigations depends largely upon the ability of the criminal investigator and prosecutor to follow the trail of money and other assets. To benefit from profit-generating crime, criminals are usually forced to launder the proceeds to hide...
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2012
04/25
The Basel Institute on Governance published the Basel AML Index 2012
The Basel Institute on Governance through its International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) has developed an AML Risk Index that assesses countries’ risk levels regarding money laundering / terrorist financing. This Basel AML Index is a composite index that integrates 15 independent indices that...
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2012
04/25
IGC in line with European Parliament on reform of FIFA
The Chairman of the Independent Governance Committee (IGC) welcomes the Recommendations by the European Parliamentary Assembly on the reform of Sports Governing Bodies. The IGC considers the Recommendations a helpful support of the ongoing governance reform of FIFA. The Reports of the European...
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2012
04/23
European Parliament study on the social use of confiscated assets
The note evaluates the current legislation on the asset recovery process both at the EU and Member States level, with a view to assessing the need and the feasibility of establishing EU regulation on the use of confiscated assets for civil society and in particular for social purposes. It points...
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2012
04/10
2011 Global Integrity report on Germany compiled by Basel Institute on Governance released
The Basel Institute on Governance was commissioned by Global Integrity to assess, amongst others, asset disclosure requirements, anti-corruption laws, the transparency of the public procurement process and media freedom in Germany on the basis of more than 300 indicators. The assessment results...
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2012
04/04
SNB Bank Council approves new regulations on own-account transactions by management
The Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) approved new regulations on private financial investments and financial transactions by members of SNB management, which will come into effect on 1 May 2012. The draft regulations were drawn up by a working group headed by a Zurich commercial...
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2012
04/03
Der Kunsthandel auf der Suche nach ethischen Richtlinien
Der Wunsch, in Kunst zu investieren, war selten so gross wie dieser Tage. Die kommende Art Basel wird den finanzkräftigen Sammlern fast ein Drittel der gesamten Öffnungszeit exklusiv zur Verfügung stellen. Damit einen Generalverdacht zu schüren, das hier investierte Geld sei zweifelhaften...
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2012
04/03
Working Paper No 12: Governance of Art Trade
The art trade market is global, highly fragmented and complex, involving a great variety of operators. In light of this complexity, the current level of regulation and existing compliance efforts by individual operators has proven to be insufficient. With some competitors engaged in unethical or...
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2012
03/30
Media Release: First Report of IGC to FIFA`s Executive Committee
Today, Friday March 30, 2012, the Independent Governance Committee (IGC) presented its first report to the Executive Committee of FIFA. The IGC has been overseeing FIFA`s reform process since its constitution in December 2011. To prepare the report, the IGC, which consists in part of renowned...
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2012
03/22
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court granted the status of complainant to the Republic of Tunisia
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court rendered a judgment today confirming the Office of the Public Prosecutor’s decision granting the status of complainant to the Republic of Tunisia in the criminal procedure opened against Belhassen Trabelsi.
Belhassen Trabelsi is the brother-in-law of the former...
[more]About us
The Basel Institute on Governance is an independent and non-profit think tank conducting research and offering policy advice and capacity building support in public, global and corporate governance/compliance. Through the International Centre for Asset Recovery, we further provide training and advisory services in the field of asset recovery. The Institute combines scientific methodology with practical experience and seeks to engage partners from all concerned stakeholder groups. Based in Switzerland and associated with the University of Basel, we bring together internationally recognised academics as well as practitioners with long-standing experience in the matters at stake.