CORRUPTION
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED Nations has highlighted how some member countries have been using their money laundering laws to criminalise corruption, while employing bribery or corruption laws to outlaw money laundering. A report by the UN Secretary General's department on how the organisation's 1996 declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions has lead to national laws being tightened regarding these crimes lists a number of case studies.The paper points out that Austria, for instance, bans bribery in its anti-money ...
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