The Need for an Anti-Corruption Fund
/The idea of establishing an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) has increased in appeal over the past few years. In 2022, the Netherlands, Canada, and Ecuador all signed a memorandum calling for the establishment of an IACC. Last year, the IACC Treaty Committee, composed of international judges, prosecutors and other experts in the field, began drafting a treaty to establish this kind of court. While the IACC could act as a powerful deterrent against corruption, current proposals do not yet include ways to help deliver justice to those that are ultimately most affected by corruption – the residents of corrupt states. Even when perpetrators are convicted, funds lost to corruption are often never retrieved.
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