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Prevention of fraud, corruption and bribery committed through legal entities for the purpose of financial and economic gain

The main objective of this project is to contribute to the prevention of and fight against economic and financial crime committed within and/or through legal entities in the private sector. To that end, the following activities will be undertaken:

(1) conducting a comparative study on the implementation and application of international and EU legislation related to the prevention of and fight against crimes such as fraud, corruption and bribery committed by either legal entities and /or by their directors;

(2) establishing an inventory of best practices with respect to the prevention of such malpractices by those entities;

(3) the convening of a conference in Warsaw, Poland of expert representatives from the MSs EU institutions and international stakeholders, on the results of the research and the survey;

(4) publishing the comparative study with the results of the research and the conference

Short title: Project HOME/2010/ISEC/AG/081

Project coordinator: T.M.C. Asser institute of The Hague

Project partner/s: Polish Institute for International Affairs (PIIA/PISM in Polish)

Financial support: EU Commission (79%), DG Home; Ministry of Security and Justice of The Netherlands (21%)

Contact person: Claudio Matera c.matera@asser.nl

Starting date: 01-01-12

(Expected) end date: 02-02-13