The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It (Star Initiative) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 11: StAR Initiative

Does De Willebois, Emile Van Der; Sharman, J. C; Harrison, Robert

 
9780821388945: The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It (Star Initiative)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0821388940 ISBN 13: 9780821388945
Verlag: World Bank Publications, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the beneficial owner―the puppet master and beneficiary of it all. Linking the beneficial owner to the proceeds of corruption is notoriously hard. With sizeable wealth and resources on their side, they exploit transnational constructions that are hard to penetrate and stay aggressively ahead of the game.

Nearly all cases of grand corruption have one thing in common. They rely on corporate vehicles ― legal structures such as companies, foundations, and trusts―to conceal ownership and control of tainted assets.

The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It takes these corporate vehicles as its angle of investigation. It builds upon cases, interviews with investigators, corporate registries and financial institutions, as well as a “mystery shopping” exercise that provide factual evidence of a criminal practice. This approach is used to understand the nature of the problem and design policy recommendations to facilitate the investigative process by unravelling the complex world of corporate vehicles.

This report is solidly built on step-by-step arguments and designed to deliver practical, applicable, and well substantiated recommendations. It is intended for use by policy makers in developing national legislation and regulation as well as international standard setters. It also provides helpful information for practitioners engaged in investigating corrupt officials and academics involved in the study of financial crime.

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Verlag
World Bank Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0821388940
ISBN 13 
9780821388945
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
286
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