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The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Luis F. Jiménez
Luis F. Jiménez*
Affiliation:
Department of International Law, Organization of American States
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New Players to Combat Transnational Bribery
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 92 , 1998 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 The complete text of the Convention can be obtained on the Internet at http://www.oas.org; OAS documents.

2 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

3 Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.

4 Bolivia deposited the second instrument of ratification with the OAS General Secretariat on Feb. 4, 1997.

5 CICC pmbl.

6 Summit of the Americas, Plan of Action, No. 5.

7 See the last paragraph of the Preamble, and Article 2.2 of the CICC.

8 Illicit enrichment is defined as a crime, in varying degrees of detail, in the laws of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

9 The Inter-American Juridical Committee is in the process of drawing up model legislation on illicit enrichment, at the request of the OAS General Assembly.

10 Only the United States has legislation on transnational bribery, in the form of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Inter-American Juridical Committee is also preparing model legislation on this criminal act.