Combating Economic Crimes Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment

Name: Combating Economic Crimes
Author: Ndiva Kofele-Kale

Auteur: Ndiva Kofele-Kale

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ndiva Kofele-Kale

Engels
Paperback
9780415859165
07 mei 2013
210 pagina's

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This book considers the offense of illicit enrichment, which has become a powerful tool in the global war against corruption. The book explores the offense in treaties, customary international law and domestic laws, looking at issues such as the presumption of innocence and human rights.

In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse burden clause which triggers an automatic presumption that any public official found in "possession of inexplicable wealth" must have acquired it illicitly. However, the reversal of the burden of proof clauses raises an important human rights issue because they conflict with the accused individual’s right to be presumed innocent. Unfortunately, the recent spate of international legislation against official corruption provides no clear guidelines on how to proceed in balancing the right of the accused to be presumed innocent against the competing right of society to trace and recapture illicitly acquired national wealth.

Combating Economic Crimes

therefore sets out to address what has been left unanswered by these multilateral conventions, to wit, the level of burden of proof that should be placed on a public official who is accused of illicitly enriching himself from the resources of the State, balanced against the protection of legitimate community interests and expectations for a corruption-free society. The book explores the doctrinal foundations of the right to a presumption of innocence and reviews the basic due process protections afforded to all accused persons in criminal trials by treaty, customary international law, and municipal law. The book then goes on to propose a framework for balancing and ‘situationalizing’ competing human rights and public interests in situations involving possible official corruption.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 mei 2013
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Hoofdauteur: Ndiva Kofele-Kale
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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