NCJ Number
226088
Date Published
February 2008
Length
35 pages
Annotation
This newsletter of the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) for February 2008 reports on the completion of the 138th International Senior Seminar on “Effective Measures for Combating Corruption: A Criminal Justice Response," provides information on forthcoming UNAFEI programs, and reports administrative news.
Abstract
The topics addressed in the seminar are those covered in the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). These include the bribery of national public officials; the bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organization; and embezzlement, misappropriation, or other diversion of property by a public official. Other UNCAC topics considered in the seminar were trading in influence, the abuse of function, illicit enrichment, bribery in the private sector, and the embezzlement of property in the private sector. The seminar also considered acts committed in support of corruption, namely, the laundering of the proceeds of crime, the obstruction of justice, and concealment. The seminar addressed these issues through lectures on corruption and responses to it in various countries, group workshop sessions, and visits and special events. Information on forthcoming UNAFEI programs covers the Fourth Seminar on Criminal Justice for Central Asia, the 13th Special Seminar for Senior Criminal Justice Officials of the People’s Republic of China, the Third Country Specific Training Course on the Revitalization of the PPA System for the Philippines, and the 139th International Training Course. Administrative news reports on faculty changes and overseas trips by staff.