Emile Van Der Does De Willebois: 2 books

The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It

by Emile van der Does de Willebois, J.C. Sharman, Robert Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011

Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the benefi cial owner—the puppet master and benefi ciary of it all. Linking the benefi cial owner to the...

Public Wrongs, Private Actions

Civil Lawsuits to Recover Stolen Assets

by Jean-Pierre Brun, Pascale Helene Dubois, Emile van der Does de Willebois
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014

Over the last decade, the topics of corruption and recovery of its proceeds have steadily risen in the international policy agenda, with the entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2005, the Arab Spring in 2011, and most recently a string of scandals in the...