1st Edition
Combating Economic Crimes Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment
By Ndiva Kofele-Kale
Copyright 2012
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Criminal Law Enforcement Strategies for Combating Economic Crimes 2. Criminalization of Illicit Enrichment in Domestic Law 3. Reversing the Burden of Proof in International and Domestic Law 4. The Right to a Fair Trial in International and Domestic Law 5. Guidelines for Assessing the Compatibility of Reverse Onus with Fair Trial Rights 6. A Framework for Balancing Competing Rights and Interests
Biography
Ndiva Kofele-Kale is a Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, USA and has written extensively in the areas of corruption and human rights.
