When fighting kleptocrats, civil actions are still a potent weapon
Angela Barkhouse
June 16, 2020
Someone recently told me that it was more important “optically” to prosecute corruption than to focus on recovering assets. Yet history tells us that prosecutions for kleptocracy are rare. And even when convictions happen, the merry-go-round of politicians prosecuted for graft, only to be released after the next elections, is nothing short of a tragic comedy.… Continue Reading