If you as an individual help someone to commit a crime, you're liable to prosecution for aiding and abetting...If you're a company, however, and your activities or products assist in the commission of even the most serious crimes, you're more than likely to be let off scot free. This anomaly has not gone unnoticed, and the UN has spent many years exploring exactly what corporations might or might not be held accountable for. Yet rarely has there been a proper analysis of what corporate complicity means in practice, and international guidelines are still a way off.