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Declaration in Support of the Creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court

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Who makes sure the Anti-Corruption Court isn’t corrupt? Is it courts all the way up?

I don’t think accountability on the international level has proven very effective in the past.[0] And I don’t think this would be any different. Especially because those member states cooperation would be determined by people who only stand to lose from being a part of it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mi...

I don't know. How is it possible to even have a system of laws without an infinite set of lawyers and appellate courts?

Why would an international anti corruption court have any success when corruption (lobby) is not prosecuted in the member states ?

This is available on the main III site as a link in the current newsletter :

"An IACC would be a court of last resort, holding kleptocrats accountable (and grabbing their accounts). The court would recover, repatriate or repurpose stolen assets, punishing corrupt officials but also professional enablers (step forward, lawyers, bankers, accountants and real estate agents).

The IACC could be established by a small number of founding member states, so long as they include several major financial hubs where lots of cash gets stashed (step forward, the UK, Europe and the US)."

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/kick-kleptocrats-in-the-wa...

Keep dreaming..the corruption and dirty money from 3rd party countries is business for both the US and the UK along with Switzerland and some small EU countries. I believe they consider it leverage as well but that's another story. If something will be done that will be to move more dirty money from banana coutries to places like Dellaware or the City of London.

It's just another neo-colonial weapon to attack former colonies and weak nations like all "international" courts/institutions/etc. It won't affect colonial powers like the US, Britain, France, etc. It certainly won't affect powerful nations like China and Russia. It'll be used to attack african, middle eastern, asian, south american, etc nations.

I mean sure, as long as this doesn't become corrupt.

Maybe we should have an international transparency court instead. Much harder to get away with corruption if certain things are done out in the open.

Sounds like yet another institution that the self appointed "International Community" will use to force the rest of humanity to live by its rules. Corruption is bad but we know that the definition of words are infinitely malleable. Likely a 100% chance that the definition of corruption will itself become corrupted so this court can be used to grab any resource on the planet that the "rules based international community" desires.

> force the rest of humanity to live by its rules.

Pretty rare that international consortiums force "most of humanity" (much less "the rest of humanity", meaning those not included in membership) to do anything.

The UN tries to make decisions for indigenous people, and everyone in between, all the time.

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