21st Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
25 Jun - 26 Jun 2025
Session information
Panel four: Sanctioning corruption or corrupting sanctions?
Wednesday 25 June (1530 - 1630)
Description
Economic sanctions have evolved in recent years to serve ever-more-sophisticated policy objectives of the countries that impose them. One of those new objectives is the deterrence and punishment of public officials and governments in the countries subject to sanctions. This panel explores the use of sanctions for this purpose, the measures which authorities in countries most using sanctions for this purpose have adopted and whether they are effective, and – at this time in the fight against international corruption – what we can expect in months and years to come.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Thomas Best | Paul Hastings, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Co-Chair, Non-trial Resolutions of Bribery Cases Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Katherine Bradbury | HM Treasury, London, England |
| Vincenzo Dell'Osso | BonelliErede, Milan, Italy; Newsletter Editor, Anti-Corruption Committee |
| Oliver Hirst | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, London, England |
| Jean-René Oettli | Borel & Barbey Avocats, Geneva, Switzerland |