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Article

10 Jan 2011

Author:
Global Witness

[PDF] full report: "Simply Criminal: Targeting Rogue Business in Violent Conflict"

Around the world, examples proliferate of businesses which have facilitated, been complicit in, or benefitted from corruption and conflict...In this paper, we propose a culpability framework for business entities involved in violent or predatory crimes using existing domestic anticorruption and international criminal law as principle sources. We outline wrongful acts that we believe are covered by existing law and identify a standard for the mens rea or mental element of such crimes...Much of what we propose is not new law but aims to clarify and expand existing law to make it more practicable and effective.