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India presents nine point agenda to G20 member nations for action against fugitive economic offenders

Updated: Dec 01, 2018 10:38:01am
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India presents nine point agenda to G20 member nations for action against fugitive economic offenders

New Delhi, Dec 1 (KNN) India presented a nine-point agenda to G20 member nations for action against fugitive economic offences and asset recovery.

India called for strong and active cooperation among them to comprehensively deal with fugitive economic offenders.

The agenda was presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the second session of the G20 Summit on international trade, international financial and tax systems.

Of those nine points, one of the agenda suggested “Cooperation in the legal processes such as effective freezing of the proceeds of crime; early return of the offenders and efficient repatriation of the proceeds of crime should be enhanced and streamlined.”

India has also called for Joint effort by G-20 countries to form a mechanism that denies entry and safe havens to all fugitive economic offenders.

Principles of United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNOTC), especially related to "International Cooperation” should be fully and effectively implemented, India recommended.

India also suggested Financial Action Task Force (FATF) should be called upon to assign priority and focus to establishing international co-operation that leads to timely and comprehensive exchange of information between the competent authorities and FIUs.

FATF should be tasked to formulate a standard definition of fugitive economic offenders, it said.

“FATF should also develop a set of commonly agreed and standardized procedures related to identification, extradition and judicial proceedings for dealing with fugitive economic offenders to provide guidance and assistance to G-20 countries, subject to their domestic law,” another suggestion made.

It said that the common platform should be set up for sharing experiences and best practices including successful cases of extradition, gaps in existing systems of extradition and legal assistance, etc.

G-20 Forum should consider initiating work on locating properties of economic offenders who have a tax debt in the country of their residence for its recovery, it added.

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