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Category: Corruption and embezzlement litigation

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Illicit Financial Flows

“Ill-gotten gains”: Rifaat Al Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, convicted in France for laundering to the detriment of the Syrian people

The Paris court sentenced Rifaat Al-Assad, uncle of Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad, to 4 years in prison in particular for organised laundering of embezzlement…
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Illicit Financial Flows

A missed opportunity : France’s return of Gulnara Karimova’s illegally acquired assets

Paris, May the 20th, 2020 – The NGO’s Transparency International France (TI-F), Sherpa and the Human Rights Association in Central Asia (AHRCA) are highly…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Harsher sentence in appeal for Teodoro Obiang Jr: “France is no longer a welcoming country for the proceeds of laundered and dirty money”

Paris, 10.02.2020 – The Paris Court of Appeal rendered its decision in the trial of Teodoro Obiang Jr, Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea. It confirmed the…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Feedbacks on the Rifaat Al Assad trial, a landmark step against ill-gotten gains

20 décembre 2019 – Prosecution against Rifaat Al Assad started after a complaint filed by Sherpa in 2013 leading to a historic trial making…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Malta Files: call for an investigation to the Attorney General of Malta

Paris, 04/10/2018 –  The French and Maltese Anti-Corruption Organizations Sherpa and Il-Kenniesa request the Attorney General of Malta  to open an investigation into the…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Panama Papers: Maltese Attorney General should make the Egrant Inquiry Report public

The French and Maltese anti-corruption organisations, Sherpa and Il-Kenniesa request from the Attorney General of Malta the full publication of the Egrant Inquiry Report.…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Council of Europe should evaluate Malta taking into account the revelations of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the Forbidden Stories consortium

Council of Europe should evaluate Malta taking into account the revelations of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the Forbidden Stories consortium Paris, July 13th…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill Gotten Gains: complaint in Canada against twenty officials and their relatives from seven African countries

June 8, 2018 – Following the initiation of an investigation in Canada regarding the ill-gotten gains case by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill-gotten gains: request for an investigation in Canada.

Paris, 1st March 2018 – Ill-gotten gains: Sherpa and the Canadian Coalition against Ill-Gotten Gains collectively request an investigation about ill-gotten gains and money…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill-Gotten Gains: The Trial of Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Finally Starts

After ten years of proceedings, the first trial in the « Ill-Gotten Gains » case will start on Monday, 19 June, at 1:30 pm. From that…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill- gotten gains : Teodoro Obiang has been referred to court

Paris, 7th September 2016. The order to refer the son of the Equatorial Guinea President’s Teodoro NGUEMA OBIANG MANGUE to the criminal court has been…
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Ill-Gotten Gains: The Public Prosecutor Requests the Opening of a Trial against Obiang

Paris, 26 May 2016 – Sherpa and Transparency International France are pleased that the Financial Public Prosecutor has at long last signed an indictment…
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Illicit Financial Flows

NGOs file a complaint against Vinci Russia for corruption of foreign public officials in Khimki Forest motorway case

Paris, 10 May 2016 – A complaint filed last week is requesting an investigation into alleged corruption involving French company Vinci in the construction…
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No immunity for Teodoro Obiang: a trial is imminent

Paris, 15 December 2015 – The judgment delivered today by the Court of Cassation constitutes a doubly important and historic stage. Firstly, by dismissing…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa is joining the suit brought against AREVA for corruption of foreign public officials as a civil party

Paris, 8 December 2015 – In 2007, AREVA bought URAMIN, a company which owns operating licenses in South Africa, Namibia and the Central African…
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