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 out that at the EU level only limited attention has been given to the final destination of confiscated assets and that within Member States using confiscated assets for social purposes is not a widely established practice. It analyses the advantages of the social re-use of confiscated assets and comes to the conclusion that there is a clear need for a coherent European approach. The note puts forward a series of recommendations ranging from the adoption of a European Directive on the social re-use of confiscated assets to the creation of a European Asset Recovery Database, a European Asset Recovery Fund and a European Asset Recovery Office.
2011 Global Integrity report on Germany, April 2012
The Basel Institute on Governance was commissioned to analyse data and compile the 2011 Global Integrity report on Germany, which can be accessed on the Global Integrity website.
UNCAC: A Bangladesh Compliance and Gap Analysis
The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (January 2008). Study funded by the GTZ and conducted jointly by the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Institute for Governance Studies of BRAC University Bangladesh, with the assistance of the Basel Institute on Governance. Download part 1 (Introduction and Prevention), part 3 (criminalisation/law enforcement and international cooperation), and part 5 (asset recovery and conclusions). Also, download the project factsheet drafted by GtZ.
Corruption - A Glossary of International Criminal Standards
Various contributions, with other authors, to this glossary on international criminal standards, published by the OECD in 2007.
by Zora Ledergerber, Gretta Fenner, Mark Pieth, in: Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems, Cambridge University Press/Transparency International, 2007 (Further information: www.transparency.org).