Preventing and Combating Corrupt Practices and Illegal Transfer of Funds and Repatriation of Such Funds to the Countries of Origin

A/RES/55/188View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93b Business and development, published in 2001.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Bribery Consultations Corruption Crime Prevention Groups of Experts Illicit Funds Transfer International Commercial Transactions Laundering of Funds Report Preparation Terms of Reference Treaties

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6 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its condemnation of corruption, bribery, money-laundering and the illegal transfer of funds;

Calls for further international and national measures to combat corrupt practices and bribery in international transactions and for international cooperation in support of those measures;

Also calls for, while recognizing the importance of national measures, increased international cooperation, inter alia, through the United Nations system, in regard to devising ways and means of preventing and addressing illegal transfers, as well as repatriating illegally transferred funds to the countries of origin, and calls upon all countries and entities concerned to cooperate in this regard;

Requests the international community to support the efforts of all countries to strengthen institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks for preventing corruption, bribery, money-laundering and illegal transfer of funds, as well as for the repatriation of those funds to the countries of origin;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General, as contained in resolution 55/61, to convene an intergovernmental open-ended expert group to examine and prepare, on the basis of the report of the Secretary-General and of recommendations of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its tenth session, draft terms of reference for the negotiation of the future legal instrument against corruption, and invites the expert group on the same basis to examine the question of illegally transferred funds and the repatriation of such funds to the countries of origin;

Decides to keep this matter under review, and, in this regard, requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States and relevant bodies of the United Nations system, to prepare, without duplicating material contained in the report requested by the Assembly in resolution 55/61, an analytical report containing information on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution and, bearing in mind resolution 54/205, concrete recommendations, inter alia, with regard to the repatriation of illegally transferred funds to the countries of origin, and to submit the report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session under the item entitled “Sectoral policy questions: business and development”.

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