The UN Convention Against Corruption has served as the catalyst for international efforts against corrupt politicians and public officials who have robbed the coffers of their states to the tune of billions of dollars. Laws to recover assets represent one of the major emerging jurisprudential issues on which countries of varying and different political ideologies can all agree, although in many western democracies the target is less the politician than the drug dealers, people smugglers and racketeers.
State Assets Recovery is often referred to as civil forfeiture and is a legal process to deprive a person of
