UN CRIME CONGRESS
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PAPER released to the United Nations' 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has claimed that the overwhelming majority of reported fraud cases are in the developing world, not rich countries. Furthermore, it claimed that - looking at 1999-2002 figures, 51% of such cases are reported in Africa. The paper's call for "technical assistance to developing countries" to improve the ability of their police, prosecutors and judicial services "to confront" financial crime, was repeated in the Bangkok congress' final communiqué.
A PAPER released to the United Nations' 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has claimed that the overwhelming majority of reported fraud cases are in the developing world, not rich countries. Furthermore, it claimed that - looking at 1999-2002 figures, 51% of such cases are reported in Africa. The paper's call for "technical assistance to developing countries" to improve the ability of their police, prosecutors and judicial services "to confront" financial crime, was repeated in the Bangkok congress' final communiqué.
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