Twenty-one OAS Members Conclude Anti-Corruption Agreement

On April 7, 1996, the media announced the signing by twenty-one members of the Organization of American States (OAS) of an anti-corruption convention (hereafter Convention) that requires signatories to criminalize and extradite persons for offenses of bribing foreign officials and to criminalize "illicit enrichment". The agreement signals an important milestone in fashioning international obligations to punish public corruption...(more)