Asset recovery

Legal proceeds initiated by the state, the government and/or its citizens in order to recover the state of resources alienated by corruption members of current or past regimes, their family members, political allies and foreign participants.

In February 2009, a Swiss court ruled that $6 million of assets allegedly stolen by former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier and held in Swiss banks should be returned to the island nation after the account holders failed to prove that their funds were legitimately acquired.