[ap-intact] INFO: New U4 video – “Corruption hunters – investigating and prosecuting financial crime”

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[Facilitator’s note: Thank you to Sofie Arjon Schütte, PhD, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, for sharing this information.]

The video “Corruption hunters – investigating and prosecuting financial crime” is now available online: http://www.u4.no/themes/justice-sector/.

Watch these experts discuss how the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention affects the fight against corruption in their countries and what the three main obstacles are that they face in investigating and prosecuting corruption:

  • Christine Uriarte, Senior Legal Analyst at OECD’s Anti-Corruption Division
  • Marianne Djupesland, Senior Prosecutor at the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
  • Richard Findl Chief Judge, Landshut High Court, formerly a Public Prosecutor Munich, Germany
  • Reyneck T. Matemba, Deputy Director-General, Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau
  • Tina Søreide, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics

The event was moderated by Sofie Schütte, U4 Senior Advisor, and jointly hosted by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the University of Bergen, and the Norwegian School of Economics.

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