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They also underline the value of peer learning and cross-border exchange.",2026,"Basel Institute on Governance","2026-04-02",false,[27,30],{"url":28,"caption":29},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fprotecting-forests-through-corruption-prevention-videos-on-promising-initiatives-in-bolivia-ecuador-and-peru-2726","Learn more about protecting forests through corruption prevention",{"url":31,"caption":32},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fjoining-forces-to-protect-the-amazon-forest-and-its-communities-from-corruption-2717","Read related news",[],[35],"Green Corruption",[37],"English",[39],"Report","Corruption in the timber value chain represents a major challenge for environmental sustainability\nand governance in Latin America. This report introduces the application of a **corruption risk\nmanagement approach** by environmental authorities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. This\napproach was implemented within the framework of technical assistance provided by the Green\nCorruption programme of the Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nCorruption refers to the misuse of entrusted power for private gain, often leading to increased\ninequality, poverty and social division. The concept of “green corruption” addresses the impact of\ncorruption as a major driver of environmental devastation and increased risk of harm to the\nenvironment and natural resources. Corruption risk refers to the possibility of a corrupt act\noccurring, but does not necessarily mean that a corrupt act has taken place. 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The control and supervision of authorised actors.\n\n**Priority areas of concern** included documentary procedures, physical inspections and the\nadministrative sanctioning procedure.\n\n**Specific corruption risks** identified involved:\n- the potential for improper agreements between public servants and third parties;\n- abuse of authority; and\n- undue influence or other improper pressures from hierarchical superiors within organisations.\n\nThe majority of planned **mitigation measures** can be grouped into four categories:\n- **Regulatory improvement**, to be accomplished by reviewing and updating administrative procedures, closing implementation gaps and other opportunities for corruption and improving operating efficiency.\n- **Strengthened supervision** through the implementation of file tracking systems and alerts as well as the use of verification formats in the approval of forestry rights and the issuance of timber transport waybills, and other practices that reduce the discretion of operational units.\n- **Enhanced communication strategies** to support information exchange and joint action within the timber value chain. 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Our methodology includes the mapping and prioritisation of corruption risks and then continuous support to help beneficiary agencies in developing and implementing tailored measures to mitigate priority risks. \n*   [Video 2: Strengthened capacities to prevent corruption with an intercultural approach.](https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FovswMqk6Pgk?si=DASciXte-EwEspqn) This highlights the importance of developing a better understanding among forestry staff as well as local and Indigenous communities, and encouraging their active participation in corruption prevention activities for a better protection of the forest.\n*   [Video 3: Efficient and transparent forest controls and inspections.](https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F8rVa5LYOD78?si=LVcDdNW47HP10eOj) This video explores ways to promote integrity and improve the efficiency of inspections, which are key to ensuring responsible management of forest resources.\n*   [Video 4: Clear processes and technology to prevent corruption.](https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F-yABwBid6aM?si=agVeu7f8EgyMciZm) The video emphasises the need to standardise processes and apply technological solutions to reduce discretion in forest management.\n*   [Video 5: Sanctions as a deterrent to illegality.](https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F91JRkBEesTo?si=-hKOOJ1gITvnjXG2) The final video highlights the importance of strengthening sanctioning processes to prevent environmental violations and promote regulatory compliance.\n\n### An inspiration for others\n\nThis video series aims to create awareness on what it means to apply corruption prevention tools in the forestry sector and the positive impact for forests and people. We congratulate all our government partners for their commitment and the impressive changes they are pioneering to protect the Amazon rainforest.\n\nWe hope these videos can be an inspiration for other countries. 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Protecting forests from threats posed by corruption is essential not only for protecting biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but also for protecting the livelihoods of local communities.\n\nTackling forestry-related corruption is a task that transcends country borders and requires the active participation and collaboration of government authorities, experts and representatives of civil society and local Indigenous communities.\n\nThat’s why we were thrilled to bring together national and subnational forestry agencies from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru on 22–24 October 2024 for the first Regional Meeting on Anti-Corruption in Forest Management. They were joined by forest governance experts and civil society representatives committed to transparency and sustainability in natural resource management.\n\nThe event took place under a [Green Corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption) project funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and the UK's Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. It was held in the city of Moyabamba in San Martín, Peru, whose government is a long-standing partner of our [Public Finance Management](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-finance-peru) programme.\n\n### Sharing knowledge and best practices\n\nThe meeting provided a platform for participants to share the results of their implementation of corruption risk management plans in their respective forestry sectors – a process carried out with our Green Corruption team’s technical assistance.\n\nAldo Bautista, Senior Specialist, Corruption Prevention in the Green Corruption programme, explained\n\n> Under this project, our team has been working hand in hand with six environmental agencies across Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, including national entities responsible for forest management. The resulting corruption risk assessments and management plans are focused on the timber value chain and on the conservation of protected areas. The five corruption risk management plans that we co-developed with our government partners highlight 21 high-priority risks in total and 33 mitigation measures that are being implemented with our team’s technical assistance.\n\nThe six beneficiary agencies presented their corruption risk plans and the mitigation measures they had implemented to not only prevent corruption but also enhance the efficiency and transparency of forest management. The measures ranged from improvements to processes and regulations to technological innovations, capacity building, intercultural communication and the strengthening of enforcement and penalties.\n\nIn addition, specialised agencies shared innovative approaches and tools to further enhance transparency and controls in forest management.\n\n### Controls in practice: a low-cost smart microscope to verify timber\n\nThe meeting also included field visits to see the impact of anti-corruption measures on the ground. At the national forestry control point of Aguas Claras, for example, participants saw how strategic inspection points help to reduce cases of illegal logging by ensuring that all timber products can be traced and their legal origin verified.\n\nThe participants were particularly interested in the small, low-cost digital microscope that San Martín inspectors use to verify the timber being transported out of the area. Connected to a smartphone, the microscope allows inspectors to quickly and accurately match the timber to a list of various types of species. Participants from Ecuador and Bolivia actively interacted with the San Martin officer demonstrating the process, and are keen to use the same low-cost technology for detection in their countries.\n\nThis highlights not only the value of peer learning and physical interaction, but also that controls and corruption prevention do not need to be expensive.\n\nForest management isn’t only about inspections and controls to prevent illegal logging and trafficking – often it’s about sustainable management of legal trade in rare plant and tree species. At Agro Oriente Viveros, one of Peru’s largest and most modern plant nurseries, participants saw how San Martín carefully and sustainably manages its trade in orchids, for which the region is known.\n\n### Working together for better sustainability initiatives\n\nThis regional meeting not only provided a space to learn about different strategies to address corruption in the forestry sector but also facilitated network building among officials at different levels and from different countries.\n\nOpportunities such as these allow our partners to foster alliances across national boundaries, and lay foundations for a collaborative regional approach that can ultimately be adapted to each country’s specific needs. It is these connections which will ensure the continuity and sustainability of transparent and sustainable forest management practices in the region.\n\n### From regional to global\n\nThe benefits of this collaboration extend beyond the continent. Lessons learned in one region can be adapted to enhance forest management in other contexts. As Juhani Grossmann, Head of our Green Corruption programme, explains:\n\n> Globally, one of the biggest challenges is that the anti-corruption tools available to governments are rarely or insufficiently used in the environmental sector. Our Green Corruption programme has been able to work with partners in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru to extend and strengthen existing anti-corruption tools for use by government forestry agencies.\n> \n> We are very grateful for the opportunity to work with our partners and learn more together about how anti-corruption tools can benefit biodiversity and conservation efforts. These are the lessons that we can share and use in other parts of the world.\n\nJuhani Grossmann was among the senior Basel Institute staff present at the meeting, together with the Basel Institute’s Head of Latin America Oscar Solórzano and key members of our Green Corruption and Public Finance Management teams.\n\n### Broad participation\n\nThe event welcomed the participation of partner agencies including:\n\n*   Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition\n*   Bolivia’s Authority for the Social Control of Forests and Land\n*   Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service\n*   The San Martín Regional Environmental Authority and the Cordillera Escalera Regional Conservation Area\n\nAlso in attendance were the head of Peru’s national Public Integrity Secretariat and the Regional Governor of San Martín.\n\nWe also welcomed representatives of the Supervisory Body for Forest Resources and Wildlife, the National Service for State-Protected Natural Areas, Amazon Conservation, the Institutional Integrity Unit of the San Martín Regional Government and the Ucayali Regional Government. Important contributions were made by civil society, including the World Wildlife Fund and the Proética (the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International).","2024-11-10",[35],"joining-forces-to-protect-the-amazon-forest-and-its-communities-from-corruption-2717",[368],"",2717,[35],[],[295],{"id":374,"storage":43,"filename_disk":375,"filename_download":376,"title":377,"type":300,"created_on":378,"modified_on":378,"charset":15,"filesize":379,"width":380,"height":381,"duration":15,"embed":15,"description":15,"location":15,"tags":15,"metadata":382,"focal_point_x":15,"focal_point_y":15,"tus_id":15,"tus_data":15,"uploaded_on":378},"a35af859-c80a-4989-85ea-eec512073711","a35af859-c80a-4989-85ea-eec512073711.webp","pic2.webp","Pic2","2025-06-03T21:59:24.000Z",316230,1280,854,{},[384,403,417],{"id":385,"news_id":386,"countries_id":402},7082,{"id":359,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":360,"user_updated":387,"date_updated":361,"title":362,"type":284,"body":363,"image":374,"date":364,"topic":388,"slug":366,"activity":389,"nid":369,"topics":390,"activities":391,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":392,"translation_of":15,"language":37,"countries":393,"tags":396,"authors":397,"images":398,"translations":399,"content":401},"dfef11db-1bc6-47e9-a61d-93443995484b",[35],[368],[35],[],[295],[385,394,395],7083,7084,[],[],[],[400],10508,[],{"id":6,"name":4,"code":101,"latitude":102,"longitude":103},{"id":394,"news_id":404,"countries_id":416},{"id":359,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":360,"user_updated":387,"date_updated":361,"title":362,"type":284,"body":363,"image":374,"date":364,"topic":405,"slug":366,"activity":406,"nid":369,"topics":407,"activities":408,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":409,"translation_of":15,"language":37,"countries":410,"tags":411,"authors":412,"images":413,"translations":414,"content":415},[35],[368],[35],[],[295],[385,394,395],[],[],[],[400],[],{"id":118,"name":119,"code":120,"latitude":121,"longitude":122},{"id":395,"news_id":418,"countries_id":430},{"id":359,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":360,"user_updated":387,"date_updated":361,"title":362,"type":284,"body":363,"image":374,"date":364,"topic":419,"slug":366,"activity":420,"nid":369,"topics":421,"activities":422,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":423,"translation_of":15,"language":37,"countries":424,"tags":425,"authors":426,"images":427,"translations":428,"content":429},[35],[368],[35],[],[295],[385,394,395],[],[],[],[400],[],{"id":82,"name":83,"code":84,"latitude":85,"longitude":86},[],[],[],[435],{"id":400,"status":14,"date_created":436,"date_updated":437,"title":438,"type":284,"body":439,"date":440,"topic":441,"slug":442,"activity":443,"nid":444,"topics":445,"activities":446,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":447,"language":448,"image":449,"translation_of":455,"countries":467,"tags":474,"authors":475,"images":476,"translations":477,"content":478},"2024-11-10T11:01:44.000Z","2026-06-06T12:19:22.000Z","Unidos para proteger los bosques amazónicos y a sus comunidades frente a la corrupción","_See [English version here](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fjoining-forces-protect-amazon-forests-and-communities-corruption)._\n\nBolivia, Ecuador y Perú albergan algunos de los bosques más importantes del mundo, y la madera constituye un recurso natural de gran valor. Proteger estos bosques frente a las amenazas que representa la corrupción es fundamental no solo para preservar la biodiversidad y mitigar el cambio climático, sino también para salvaguardar los medios de vida de las comunidades locales.\n\nAbordar la corrupción relacionada con el sector forestal es una tarea que trasciende las fronteras nacionales y requiere la participación activa y la colaboración de autoridades gubernamentales, expertos, representantes de la sociedad civil y comunidades indígenas locales.\n\nPor ello, nos complació reunir a agencias forestales nacionales y subnacionales de Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú del 22 al 24 de octubre de 2024 en el Primer Encuentro Regional sobre Prevención de la Corrupción en el sector Forestal. Este evento contó con la participación de expertos en gobernanza forestal y representantes de la sociedad civil comprometidos con la transparencia y la sostenibilidad en la gestión de los recursos naturales.\n\nEl evento se llevó a cabo en el marco de un proyecto [Green Corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption) financiado por la Oficina de Asuntos Internacionales de Narcóticos y Aplicación de la Ley del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos y el Fondo para Conflictos, Estabilidad y Seguridad del Reino Unido. Se realizó en la ciudad de Moyobamba, en la región de San Martín, Perú, cuyo gobierno es un socio de larga data de nuestro programa de Gestión de Finanzas Públicas ([Programa GFP Subnacional](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-finance-peru)).\n\n### Intercambio de conocimientos y mejores prácticas\n\nEl encuentro ofreció una plataforma para que las y los participantes compartieran los resultados de la implementación de sus planes de gestión de riesgos de corrupción en sus respectivos sectores forestales, un proceso llevado a cabo con la asistencia técnica de nuestro equipo de Green Corruption.\n\nAldo Bautista, Especialista Senior en Prevención de la Corrupción del programa Green Corruption, explicó:\n\n> En el marco de este proyecto, nuestro equipo ha trabajado de la mano con seis agencias ambientales en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú, incluyendo entidades nacionales responsables de la gestión forestal. Las evaluaciones de riesgos de corrupción y los planes de gestión resultantes se centran en la cadena de valor de la madera y en la conservación de áreas protegidas. Los cinco planes de gestión de riesgos de corrupción que co-desarrollamos con nuestros socios gubernamentales destacan un total de 21 riesgos de alta prioridad y 33 medidas de mitigación que están siendo implementadas con la asistencia técnica de nuestro equipo.\n\nLas seis agencias beneficiarias presentaron sus planes de gestión de riesgos de corrupción y las medidas de mitigación implementadas, no solo para prevenir la corrupción, sino también para mejorar la eficiencia y la transparencia en la gestión forestal. Las medidas abarcaron desde mejoras en procesos y regulaciones hasta innovaciones tecnológicas, fortalecimiento de capacidades, comunicación intercultural y el refuerzo de mecanismos de control y sanciones.\n\nAdemás, agencias especializadas compartieron enfoques y herramientas innovadoras para fortalecer aún más la transparencia y los controles en la gestión forestal.\n\n### Controles en práctica: un microscopio inteligente de bajo costo para verificar madera\n\nEl encuentro incluyó visitas de campo para observar el impacto de las medidas anticorrupción en territorio. En el puesto nacional de control forestal de Aguas Claras, por ejemplo, las y los participantes pudieron ver cómo los puntos estratégicos de inspección ayudan a reducir casos de tala ilegal al garantizar que todos los productos de madera sean trazables y su origen legal pueda verificarse.\n\nUn aspecto que despertó especial interés por parte de los participantes fue el pequeño microscopio digital de bajo costo utilizado por los inspectores de San Martín para verificar la madera transportada fuera del área. Conectado a un teléfono inteligente, este dispositivo permite a los inspectores identificar de manera rápida y precisa las especies de madera en comparación con una lista de tipos registrados. Las y los participantes de Ecuador y Bolivia interactuaron activamente con el inspector de San Martín durante la demostración del proceso y manifestaron gran interés en implementar esta tecnología accesible en sus países para mejorar la detección.\n\nEsto resalta no solo el valor del aprendizaje entre pares y la interacción directa, sino también que los controles y la prevención de la corrupción no tienen que ser costosos.\n\nLa gestión forestal no se limita a inspecciones y controles para prevenir la tala ilegal y el tráfico ilícito; a menudo, se trata del manejo sostenible del comercio legal de especies raras de plantas y árboles. En Agro Oriente Viveros, uno de los viveros más grandes y modernos de Perú, las y los participantes observaron cómo la región de San Martín gestiona cuidadosamente y de manera sostenible su comercio de orquídeas, una de las especialidades por las que la región es reconocida.\n\n### Trabajando juntos por mejores iniciativas de sostenibilidad\n\nEste encuentro regional no solo brindó un espacio para conocer diferentes estrategias para abordar la corrupción en el sector forestal, sino que también facilitó la creación de redes entre funcionarios de distintos niveles y países.\n\nOportunidades como esta permiten a nuestros socios fomentar alianzas que trasciendan fronteras nacionales y sentar las bases para un enfoque regional colaborativo que, en última instancia, pueda adaptarse a las necesidades específicas de cada país. Son estas conexiones las que garantizarán la continuidad y sostenibilidad de prácticas de gestión forestal transparentes y sostenibles en la región.\n\n### De lo regional a lo global\n\nLos beneficios de esta colaboración trascienden el continente. Las lecciones aprendidas en una región pueden adaptarse para mejorar la gestión forestal en otros contextos. Como explica Juhani Grossmann, jefe de nuestro programa Green Corruption:\n\n> A nivel global, uno de los mayores desafíos es que las herramientas anticorrupción disponibles para los gobiernos rara vez se utilizan o se emplean de manera insuficiente en el sector ambiental. Nuestro programa Green Corruption ha trabajado con socios en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú para ampliar y fortalecer las herramientas anticorrupción existentes, para uso por parte de las agencias gubernamentales de gestión forestal.\n> \n> Estamos muy agradecidos por la oportunidad de trabajar con nuestros socios y aprender juntos cómo estas herramientas pueden beneficiar los esfuerzos de conservación y biodiversidad. Estas son las lecciones que podemos compartir y aplicar en otras partes del mundo.\n\nJuhani Grossmann fue uno de los funcionarios senior de Basel Institute presentes en el encuentro, junto con el jefe de América Latina de Basel Institute, Óscar Solórzano, y miembros clave de nuestros equipos de Green Corruption y Gestión de Finanzas Públicas.\n\n### Amplia participación\n\nEl evento contó con la participación de las siguientes agencias socias:\n\n*   Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica de Ecuador\n*   Autoridad de Fiscalización y Control Social de Bosques y Tierra de Bolivia\n*   Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre de Perú\n*   Autoridad Regional Ambiental de San Martín y el Área de Conservación Regional Cordillera Escalera\n\nAsimismo, estuvieron presentes la máxima autoridad de la Secretaría de Integridad Pública Nacional de Perú y el Gobernador Regional de San Martín.\n\nTambién contamos con la participación de representantes del Organismo de 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corruption risks in the timber value chain: new three-country course in Latin America","Corruption in the timber trade is a serious threat, economically and environmentally. Forest-rich countries in Latin America are particularly exposed.\n\nThose include Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, where our [Green Corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption) programme has been working with forestry authorities and environmental agencies to help them assess and mitigate corruption risks.\n\nA new virtual course now seeks to systematise and expand the capacity of officials across those three countries to assess and mitigate corruption risks in the timber value chain, including through peer learning and experience sharing.\n\nDeveloped and led by our Latin America-based Green Corruption specialists, the course will see a cohort of more than 200 officials participating in the course’s activities and sessions across seven weeks. In addition to public officials from forestry authorities and environmental agencies, researchers and Indigenous leaders are also among the participants.\n\nThe course is part of a three-country programme funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL Bureau).\\*\n\n### Launching learning\n\nOur team launched the course “Corruption Risk Management in the Timber Value Chain” on 19 August at a well-attended online event.\n\nDuring the launch, our team provided a detailed description of the course's methodological design, educational resources and activities aimed at fostering dynamic and practical learning. Alongside video lectures, live learning sessions, reading and tests, there is a forum, group meetings, a group project and a scheduled \"coffee break\".\n\nThe presentation also included a demonstration of the [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002F) platform, guiding attendees on how to navigate it and make the most of the tools available.\n\nBasel LEARN is now our central hub for the delivery of training programmes, though this is the first time we have run a training course with a three-country cohort over a period of several weeks.\n\n### Gaining essential knowledge and practical skills\n\nAt the end of the course, officials will be better equipped to:\n\n*   understand the role of corruption risk management in the timber value chain;\n*   identify and prioritise corruption risks that need to be addressed;\n*   prepare mitigation measures and enhance the organisation's preventive capacity overall.\n\nThough virtual, the course is designed to be as hands-on and interactive as possible. For example, a two-session workshop will see participants working together in small groups to analyse risks and submit the outcomes as a group project.\n\nThe high number of registrants reflects the strong interest and commitment of participants in contributing to a more transparent and sustainable forestry sector. We look forward to supporting the learners as they progress through their journey and to facilitating discussions between officials across the region.\n\n_\\*The course and this article were funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. Any opinions, findings and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State._","2024-09-02",[35],"managing-corruption-risks-in-the-timber-value-chain-new-three-country-course-in-latin-america-2674",[575],"Training",2674,[35,578],"Learning and training",[575],[295],{"id":582,"storage":43,"filename_disk":583,"filename_download":299,"title":569,"type":300,"created_on":584,"modified_on":584,"charset":15,"filesize":585,"width":303,"height":586,"duration":15,"embed":15,"description":15,"location":15,"tags":15,"metadata":587,"focal_point_x":15,"focal_point_y":15,"tus_id":15,"tus_data":15,"uploaded_on":584},"773545b4-f6e7-4268-a7ff-b955b8adb7c8","773545b4-f6e7-4268-a7ff-b955b8adb7c8.webp","2025-05-12T21:10:30.000Z",31962,790,{},[589,606,620],{"id":590,"news_id":591,"countries_id":605},7097,{"id":566,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":567,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":568,"title":569,"type":284,"body":570,"image":582,"date":571,"topic":592,"slug":573,"activity":593,"nid":576,"topics":594,"activities":595,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":596,"translation_of":15,"language":15,"countries":597,"tags":600,"authors":601,"images":602,"translations":603,"content":604},[35],[575],[35,578],[575],[295],[590,598,599],7098,7099,[],[],[],[],[],{"id":6,"name":4,"code":101,"latitude":102,"longitude":103},{"id":598,"news_id":607,"countries_id":619},{"id":566,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":567,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":568,"title":569,"type":284,"body":570,"image":582,"date":571,"topic":608,"slug":573,"activity":609,"nid":576,"topics":610,"activities":611,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":612,"translation_of":15,"language":15,"countries":613,"tags":614,"authors":615,"images":616,"translations":617,"content":618},[35],[575],[35,578],[575],[295],[590,598,599],[],[],[],[],[],{"id":118,"name":119,"code":120,"latitude":121,"longitude":122},{"id":599,"news_id":621,"countries_id":633},{"id":566,"status":14,"user_created":310,"date_created":567,"user_updated":57,"date_updated":568,"title":569,"type":284,"body":570,"image":582,"date":571,"topic":622,"slug":573,"activity":623,"nid":576,"topics":624,"activities":625,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":626,"translation_of":15,"language":15,"countries":627,"tags":628,"authors":629,"images":630,"translations":631,"content":632},[35],[575],[35,578],[575],[295],[590,598,599],[],[],[],[],[],{"id":82,"name":83,"code":84,"latitude":85,"longitude":86},[],[],[],[],[],{"id":640,"status":14,"date_created":641,"date_updated":642,"title":643,"type":644,"body":645,"date":646,"topic":647,"slug":649,"activity":650,"nid":652,"topics":653,"activities":655,"programme":15,"area":15,"websites":656,"language":15,"image":657,"translation_of":15,"countries":664,"tags":952,"authors":969,"images":987,"translations":988,"content":989},10462,"2024-08-08T16:01:40.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:30.000Z","New GAFILAT guide: Why asset recovery laws need to align with human rights and other international standards","Blog","_A new guide to non-conviction based forfeiture published by GAFILAT, the Latin American body of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sets out good practices for this powerful but under-used form of asset recovery legislation. It also emphasises the need for laws to align with both domestic constitutions and international human rights standards._\n\n_The GAFILAT guide was drafted by Oscar Solórzano in collaboration with the region’s Asset Recovery Network (RRAG). Oscar is Head of Latin America at the Basel Institute on Governance and a Senior Asset Recovery Specialist with many years of experience supporting government partners across Latin America in high-profile, complex cases of corruption and asset recovery._\n\n_In this Q&A, he explains the approach, relevance and impact of the_ [_Guía de Buenas Prácticas sobre Extinción de Dominio y Decomiso no Basado en Condena_](https:\u002F\u002Fcopolad.eu\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F07\u002FCOPOLAD_Publicaciones_Guia_de_Buenas_Practicas_sobre_Extincion_de_Dominio.pdf)_, which was published by GAFILAT in 2024 and financed by EU member states through the_ [_COPOLAD III_](https:\u002F\u002Fcopolad.eu\u002Fen\u002F) _cooperation programme. COPOLAD III is a consortium led by the Italo-Latin American Association (IILA) and FIIAPP of the Spanish Cooperation._\n\n### 1\\. What is the guide about and who is it for?\n\nThis is a guide to good practices in non-conviction based forfeiture for Latin America. It analyses the existence and implementation of non-conviction based forfeiture mechanisms in the 18 GAFILAT countries, which provided useful data during the drafting process and very detailed comments during the review.\n\nThe guide contains an analysis of economic criminality in Latin America and the public policy response. It also addresses the essential concepts and standards applicable to non-conviction based forfeiture, presents case studies and explores available data from GAFILAT countries.\n\nPolicymakers, legislators, law enforcement and judicial practitioners, law students and civil society – including journalists who report on these complex topics – will benefit from the guidance.\n\n### 2\\. Why is there a need for guidance?\n\nThe expansion of non-conviction based forfeiture legislation has accelerated in Latin America in recent years, and not necessarily in the most coordinated or harmonised way. In line with the [updated FATF standards relating to asset recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Ffatf-seeks-change-landscape-international-asset-recovery-what-means-latin-america), it is expected that it will continue to expand in the region.\n\nIn effect, the FATF’s updated Recommendations 4 and 38 make the adoption of non-conviction based forfeiture laws mandatory and seek to ensure that decisions based on these laws can be enforced internationally.\n\nThe guide therefore appears at an ideal time. It proposes a way to harmonise this type of law while respecting the legislative diversity that exists in the region.\n\n### 3\\. The idea is that non-conviction based forfeiture can reduce economic and organised crime – even without the threat of criminal convictions. Can you justify that?\n\nEconomic crimes are perpetrated for the purpose of obtaining illicit economic advantages. Laws that reduce such economic advantages are a concrete step forward. And jurisdictions with more powerful and varied legal tools are more likely to see their crime rates decrease, simply because there is a concrete societal response to the criminal phenomenon.\n\nWithout comprehensive asset recovery laws and an effective judicial apparatus to implement them, various incentives for engaging in profitable criminal activity arise. Some studies show that the lack of effective legal mechanisms targeting criminal assets has, among other things, allowed an explosion of organised and economic crime in Latin America in all its manifestations.\n\nThe same goes for the growth of public-sector corruption. Assets stolen through corruption have rarely been confiscated in the past, when asset recovery was only possible in the context of criminal proceedings. \n\nIt is naïve to think that a legislative instrument alone can change the reality of crime in Latin America, where the most fearsome drug cartels operate and, according to all international indices, corruption is rampant from north to south. However, the empirical experience I have gathered while working for almost 15 years in this part of the world indicates that there is a (positive) difference in the criminal situation of countries that effectively implement asset recovery mechanisms.\n\nA robust legal toolkit for asset recovery also alters the behaviour of criminal organisations, which have to bear higher costs to develop more sophistication in their criminal activities or simply relocate their activity to jurisdictions less equipped with legal tools and the ability to wield them.\n\nIn Peru, to take a positive example, non-conviction based forfeiture is proving a powerful way to get at numerous politicians who have been accused of corruption, but where criminal proceedings seem to be never-ending. The independence of Peru’s non-conviction based forfeiture law from criminal procedures allows prosecutors to target assets even if their owners inevitably slip through the nets of justice.\n\n### 4\\. What does the guide show about the prevalence and success of different forms of non-conviction based forfeiture in the region?\n\nOn paper, there has been a lot of progress in the adoption of non-conviction based forfeiture in Latin America. Only two countries in the region do not have any form of non-conviction based forfeiture law. The most predominant form is arguably [Extinción de dominio](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Flatin-americas-model-law-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-illicit-assets-turns-10-what-now), which has existed for 13 years. Ten out of the 18 countries have incorporated it into their legal arsenals and apply it in various forms and degrees.\n\nExtinción de dominio is a flexible law that can operate in civil, criminal or administrative matters, or even completely independently. It has developed specific concepts that make it possible to broaden the grounds for asset forfeiture. It lists an extensive catalogue of rights of the defence which, as stated in the Guide, seem to go far beyond the internationally established standard.\n\nIn practice, however, recovery rates remain modest in relation to the volume of criminal assets generated in and flowing through the region. The best practices guide argues that a lack of effective implementation of existing laws partially explains the poor performance. The quality of implementation is influenced by political, economic and social interests. These are not necessarily addressed in the guide, which limits itself to technical and legal issues. \n\nHowever, the guide proposes some concepts and comparative practices that have the modest objective of guiding national authorities in applying this indispensable tool.\n\n### 5\\. What are success factors and challenges?\n\nIn many Latin American countries, non-conviction based forfeiture is only taking its first baby steps. But from a Darwinian perspective of law – i.e. survival of the fittest – I observe that the laws that thrive are those that align with international standards and the constitutional rights of the countries that adopt them. In other words, those laws that develop around recognised global standards and practices but that are also designed to work in specific local contexts. \n\nSince 2020, together with my colleagues and many passionate and competent local partners, I have implemented programmes promoting non-conviction based forfeiture laws in the region. That experience has helped me to see that there is a group of countries that have what we can call a “European” approach to the issue, and whose laws apply only in a narrow set of scenarios.\n\nOthers have more hard-hitting practices that evoke the laws used in countries such as the United States, and have transposed common law practices and principles into civil law frameworks without further reflection. Despite an increase in asset recovery rates, in many cases this has led to distortions and challenges, which are partially explored in the guide.\n\n### 6\\. What does the guide tell us about non-conviction based forfeiture in international cases?\n\nInternational asset recovery is a very different animal from domestic asset recovery and has political implications.\n\nThat said, since 2014 several Latin American countries have tried to pierce the once impenetrable veil of the European financial system with non-conviction based forfeiture procedures. Switzerland and then Luxembourg were the first European countries to accept these laws as valid, in particular in relation to decisions based on Extinción de dominio. Today, almost all countries accept provisional measures based on these laws and some can directly enforce the resulting decisions.\n\nEven if the practice of enforcing non-conviction based forfeiture judgments is not abundant, we hope that the new standards adopted by the FATF on this matter will help to accelerate international asset recovery.\n\n### 7\\. The guide emphasises the need to align laws with international human rights standards. Why?\n\nIn my opinion, this is fundamental. It is inconceivable that the ideals of justice can be achieved to the detriment of human rights.\n\nRather than a random matter left to the discretion of states, respecting human rights in the adoption of non-conviction based forfeiture laws is an international treaty obligation. Most countries adhere to the so-called _control of conventionality_ doctrine, i.e. the obligation to align any domestic legal instrument or practice with binding rules arising from international treaties such as the American Convention of Human Rights. This presupposes that the adoption of any domestic rule and practice on non-conviction based forfeiture must respect human rights and the practice of human rights courts. This is a condition _sine qua non_ of any asset recovery law.\n\nThe guide cites two examples of setbacks to the use of non-conviction based forfeiture laws in the region on the basis of human rights deficits. We can agree or disagree with the premises used by the countries’ High Courts to reach their conclusions. But what is clear is that (a lack of consideration for) human rights can also play a paralysing role. This challenge is vividly illustrated in Peru right now, where the Ombudsman has [filed a claim](https:\u002F\u002Flarepublica.pe\u002Fpolitica\u002Fjudiciales\u002F2024\u002F08\u002F08\u002Fdefensor-del-pueblo-josue-gutierrez-quiere-traerse-abajo-la-ley-de-extincion-de-dominio-tribunal-constitucional-691474) against the use of non-conviction based forfeiture with the Constitutional Tribunal on the grounds that it could violate the right to property and the principle of the presumption of innocence.\n\nOn a more positive note, a human rights lens can enhance the application of this type of law, especially in the context of international cooperation.\n\n*   On the one hand, more attention to human rights brings more legitimacy and acceptance to laws and therefore better recovery rates.\n*   On the other hand, a human rights lens also offers national legislators the ability to adopt more incisive standards when there are, for example, elements of organised crime or other exceptional conditions that make the application of some human rights more flexible. \n\n### 8\\. How does the guide help navigate the human rights topic in practice?\n\nAs the guide explains through a study of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the issue is constantly evolving. The guide provides Latin American legislators and practitioners with examples of how to develop the human rights approach in a clearer way and enables them to critically review concrete non-conviction based forfeiture cases in various parts of the world. It emphasises two human rights that are central to non-conviction based forfeiture: the right to property and the right to a fair trial.\n\nThis will be enormously beneficial in ensuring that new or revised non-conviction based forfeiture laws in Latin America are in line with the updated FATF Recommendations. The guide advocates for the adoption of laws that are in harmony with human rights principles and specifies that their international enforcement is a recognised standard. Similarly, the interpretative notes to the revised FATF Recommendations 4 and 38 – and the very coherence of the FATF system – indicate that the respect for human rights is fundamental to the adoption and application of these laws.\n\nThe human rights perspective is likely to be an important element in the forthcoming fifth round of FATF Mutual Evaluations in GAFILAT countries, where the technical compliance and effectiveness of these laws with FATF standards will be under the microscope.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   See the [_Guía de Buenas Prácticas sobre Extinción de Dominio y Decomiso no Basado en Condena_](https:\u002F\u002Fcopolad.eu\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F07\u002FCOPOLAD_Publicaciones_Guia_de_Buenas_Practicas_sobre_Extincion_de_Dominio.pdf)_._\n*   Read a related blog by Oscar Solórzano: [FATF seeks to change the landscape of international asset recovery: what this means for Latin 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