Acknowledgments
This handbook is the result of special collaborative efforts from colleagues around the world. Their time and expertise were invaluable in developing a practical tool to assist practitioners in recovering the proceeds and instrumentalities of corruption. This publication was written by Jean-Pierre Brun (team leader, Financial Market Integrity Unit, World Bank), Larissa Gray (Financial Market Integrity Unit), Kevin Stephenson (Financial Market Integrity Unit), and Clive Scott (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC]), with the participation of Nina Gidwaney (Financial Market Integrity Unit). The authors are especially grateful to Jean Pesme (manager, Financial Market Integrity Unit, Financial and Private Sector Development Network) and Adrian Fozzard (Stolen Asset Recovery [StAR] Initiative coordinator) for their ongoing support and guidance on this project. The team benefited from many insightful comments during the peer review process, which was co-chaired by Jean Pesme and Tim Steele (senior governance specialist, StAR Secretariat). The peer reviewers were Raymond Baker (director, Global Financial Integrity), Yara Esquivel (Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank), Frank Fariello (Legal Department, World Bank), Agustin Flah (Legal Department, World Bank), Jeanne Hauch (Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank), Lindy Muzila (UNODC), and Mutembo Nchito (prosecutor, Zambia). As part of the drafting and consultation process, practitioners’ workshops were held in Vienna, Austria (May 2009) and Marseille, France (May 2010). Practitioners brought experience conducting criminal confiscation, non-conviction based confiscation, civil actions, investigations, asset tracing, international cooperation and asset management— from both civil and common law jurisdictions, and from both developed and developing countries. The people participating (from both public and private sectors) were Yves Aeschlimann (Financial Market Integrity Unit), Jean-Marc Cathelin (France), France Chain (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]), Hamza Chraiti (Switzerland), Anne Conestabile (OECD), Margaret Cotter (International Monetary Fund), William Cowden (United States), Maxence Delorme (France), Nick deVilliers (South Africa), Adrian Fajardo (Mexico), Frank Filippeli (United States), Clara Garrido (Colombia), John Gilkes (United States), Dorothee A. Gottwald (UNODC),