ICC Commercial Crime Service

Abacha Case

Duvalier Case

The Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, a joint program of the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), launched the StAR Asset Recovery Watch, a research project that systematically compiles information on past and current recovery cases involving corruption.
FraudNet members were involved in many of those cases.

A.  United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) adopted in Merida on 31 October 2003

          a. Official page of the Convention (UNODC)

          b. English text of the Convention in PDF

          c. Signature and Ratification Status

          d. Official technical tools and publications

          e. Other resources: …

B.  OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions adopted in Paris on 21 November 1997

          a. Official page of the Convention (OECD)

          b. English text of the Convention (in PDF)

          c. Status of Ratifications (in PDF)

          d. Country Monitoring Reports

          e. Other resources: Transparency International page on Progress Report on the Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

C. Inter-American Convention against Corruption adopted in Caracas on 29 March 1996

          a. Official page of the Convention (OAS)

          b. English text of the Convention

          c. Status of ratifications

          d.  Other resources: …

D. African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003

          a. African Union Page

          b. English text of the Convention (in PDF)

          c. Status of Ratifications (in PDF)

          d. Other resources: …

Corruption regulation may be found in the Country pages of this website's Resources

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has developped TRACK (Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge), a data bas of legal resources on corruption. The Legal Library contains laws, jurisprudence and information on anti-corruption authorities from over 175 States worldwide, indexed and searchable according to each provision of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have published a joint country database on anti-corruption resources.