Jointly produced by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, this study explores the burgeoning phenomena of international foreign bribery cases being resolved through
settlements short of full trials. The major issues discussed involve how the monetary sanctions of settlements compare to the requirements of the United Nations Convention against Corruption on
the recovery and return of the proceeds of corruption and the effect of settlements in one jurisdiction upon investigations into corruption in another. The report finds that only a tiny
percentage of settlement money is actually returned to the country in which officials were bribed and governments of those countries are rarely able to find any other means of international
redress. The analysis is based on examination of 395 settlement cases that took place between 1999 and mid-2012. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
