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This workshop will
focus on the various forms of international corruption
and clarify the obstacles in combating such activities.
Using a series of detailed case studies, the workshop
will attempt to provide concrete insights into
the forms that international corruption may take
and how it can be addressed. These case studies
will benefit from input by those in the forefront
of the fight against international corruption,
including investigating judges, lawyers, law enforcement
agencies, journalists and civil society organizations.
They will attempt to answer questions such as
What could be proved? What information really
made a difference to how a case progressed? What
transnational cooperation exists? What institutional
barriers exist?
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Corruption
in the arms trade |
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Options
for institutional design in countries of
endemic corruption |
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Influence peddling |
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Politicians
incorporated: international perspectives
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Offshore
financial centers & money laundering |
WS 6.1 Politicians
incorporated : Home
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25 May
Sunday 14:30-17:00 |
 Chair
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Kirstine
Drew |
PSIRU |
| Rapporteur
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Kirstine
Drew
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PSIRU |
| Panelists
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Yulia
Latynina
Greg Palast
Justin O'Brien
Douglas Yates |
Novaya Gazeta
Journalist, USA
Institute of Governance, Queen's University
Belfast 
American University - Paris, France |
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The overall aim of the workshop is to present
the techniques, legal and illegal, used
by Multinational Companies (MNCs) to buy
political influence and capture state institutions
- at home and abroad.
The workshop focuses primarily, although
not exclusively on the USA. It uses case
studies to expose a common modus operandi.
It also seeks to assess the impact of
current reforms in the light of these
techniques.
Topics:
1. Evidence of companies’ strategies to
buy influence at home
2. Domestic state capture: A comparative
view
3. Use of party political funding to influence
government
4 . Scrutiny of the role of national government
in promoting private interests at home |
WS 6.2 State Looting: Returning Abacha’s Stolen
Billions
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26 May
Monday 11:00-13:00 |
| Coordinator
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David
Ugolor |
African
Network for Environmental and Economic Justice |
| Chair
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Jeremy
Brooks
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TI-Secretariat |
| Panelists
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Timothy Daniel
Jeremy Carver
Jose Ugaz |
Kendall Freeman,
UK
Clifford Chance, UK
Former special state attorney for the Montesinos
Case, Peru |
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This workshop aims to identify the practical
effect of the proposed UN Convention Against
Corruption for the fight against corruption
globally. During the workshop, a stock-taking
exercise will first take place concerning
the present state of the negotiations. Secondly,
an attempt will be made to formulate a number
of benchmarks which can be used to measure
the potential effectiveness of the Convention,
both from the perspective of State and of
civil society. This discussion may address
the following:
- What the future impact of the Convention
beyond the negotiation phase might be
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How or by what means
that impact might be fortified i.e.
what stockholders, what resources,
etc. would be required |
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How to integrate the
Convention with national anti-corruption
strategies and to engender more effective
cooperation through international
organizations and agencies and mutual
legal assistance arrangements |
1. General introduction: State of play
2. Asset recovery: Civil society's role
3. Development of benchmarks
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WS 6.3 Trafficking in Humans
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26 May
Monday 14:30-17:00 |
| Chair
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Dragos
Kos |
Office for the Prevention of Corruption,
Slovenia |
| Rapporteur
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Veronique
Lerch
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TI- Secretariat |
| Panelists
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Marija
Andjelkovic
Kenny Wai-Yan Tso
Manuel Lezertua
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ASTRA- Anti Sex Trafficking
Action
Independent Commission Against Corruption
? Hong Kong
Economic Crime Division, Council of Europe
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Trafficking in human beings is nowadays
dominated by highly organised criminal groups
that are also involved in engaging government
officials in dozens of countries to assist
in the process. For traffickers the profits
are high and risks are low. Until now the
particular link between corruption and human
trafficking has been given little attention
and very few proposals for anti-corruption
measures were made within the framework
of human trafficking. This workshop aims
at filling this gap and at highlighting
the corruption angle of human trafficking.
It will also attempt to determine how the
anti-corruption organisations could support
the work done to prevent human trafficking.
Therefore, one of the central aims of this
workshop is to raise awareness of anti-corruption
agencies and NGOs to the crime of human
trafficking. The workshop should end by
drafting of some recommendations for anti-corruption
institutions in order to develop some activities
in this field.
Topics
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Opportunities for corruption
in the trafficking chain (recruitment-transportation-border
crossing-exploitation) |
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Opportunities for corruption
in the criminal justice chain (legislation-investigation-
search, seizure and confiscation-
trial, …) |
3. Opportunities for corruption in the
protection of and support to the victims
of human trafficking
4. Risks of curbing corruption in human
trafficking
5. Measures to curb corruption in human
trafficking
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WS 6.4 Corruption in Forestry
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27 May
Tuesday 11:00-13:00 |
| Chair
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Luca
Tacconi |
CIFOR, Indonesia |
| Rapporteur
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Aled
Williams
|
TI-Secretariat |
| Panelists
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Ute
Siebert
Jason Patlis
Juanita Olaya |
Forestry Integrity
Network
Environmental Law and Law Development Associates,
Indonesia
TI-Secretariat |
| Discussant
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Corene
Crossin
Michael Manning
Abigail Hansen
Bruce Bailey
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Global Witness, UK
TI-Papua New Guinea
Sherpa, France
OECD |
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The workshop will, first and foremost, attempt
to illuminate the nature and extent of the
problem of forest corruption. Corruption
in forestry occurs at different stages of
exploitation and use of the forest resource
base, including during allocation of forest
concessions, through illegal logging, illegal
log processing, illegal trade and finally,
through the laundering of illicit proceeds,
fraud and tax evasion. As such, actions
needed to tackle the problem of forest sector
corruption will vary and must be based on
conceptual clarity about the various dimensions,
nature and extent of the problem. The workshop
will attempt to provide such clarity as
a basis for future action. The workshop
will also identify best practices in combating
different kinds of corrupt activities, and
in identifying criteria and indicators by
which to measure progress, another critical
need in the fight to reduce forest sector
corruption.Topics:
1. The relevance of TI tools for fighting
corruption in the forest sector.
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Case study on illegal
logging in Cameroon and/or analysis
of the system of corruption in the
forest sector. |
3. Allocation of forest concessions
4. Laundering of illicit proceeds, fraud
and tax evasion
5. Illegal trade
6. Illegal log processing |
WS 6.5 Corruption and the arms trade : The South
Africa case
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27 May
Tuesday 14:30-17:00 |
| Coordinator
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Laurence
Cockroft
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TI-UK |
| Chair
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Laurence
Cockroft |
TI-UK |
| Rapporteur
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Colm
Allan
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Public Service Accountability Monitor, South
Africa |
| Panelists
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Richard
Young
Gavin Woods
Stoffel Fourie
Michael Wiehen
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CCII
South Africa - MP
Joint Investigating Team into the Arms Deal,
South
Africa
TI-Germany |
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The arrangements surrounding the South African
Arms Deal throw a clear light on practices
which have become common in the global defence
industry, in which forms of corruption are
accepted as a norm. The workshop will review
the nature of these as demonstrated in this
case and discuss ways forward to avoid comparable
corruption in other major sales, especially
between companies based in the 'north',
and governments in the 'south' . Particular
attention will be paid to the scope for
applying TI's Integrity Pact to arms purchases,
with reference to opportunities in Colombia
and India'.
Topics:
1. Parliamentary oversight of defence
acquisitions in developing democracies
2. Strengthening procurement procedures
in defence purchases
3. “Offset” or “counter-trade” investments
and corruption in the arms trade
4. Arms trade corruption and the north/south
divide
5. The application of integrity pacts
within the arms trade |
WS.
6.6 The Influence Peddlers
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28 May
Wednesday 09:00-11:30 |
| Coordinator
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Phillip
van Niekirk
David Hall
Kirstine Drew
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International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists, USA
Public Services International Research Unit,
UK
Public Services International Research Unit,
UK |
| Chair
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Kirstine
Drew |
Public Services International Research Unit,
UK |
| Rapporteur
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Kristine
Drew |
Public Service International Reserach Unit,
UK |
| Panelists
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Jorge Cortes
Corene Crossin
Jim Vallette |
Collective of Applied
Studies to Social Department, Bolivia
Global Witness, UK
Sustainable Natural Energy and Economy Network,
USA
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The overall aim of the workshop is to present
the techniques, legal and illegal, used
by Multinational Companies (MNCs) to buy
political influence and capture state institutions
- at home and abroad.
The workshop focuses primarily, although
not exclusively on the USA. It uses case
studies to expose a common modus operandi.
It also seeks to assess the impact of
current reforms in the light of these
techniques.
Topics:
1. The business of war
2. Enron abroad: The view from Bolivia
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