Money Laundering and Corruption Legislation

U.S. Law | International Instruments

U.S. Law

Executive Order 13224 on Terrorist Financing, September 24, 2001, with
updates to annex of persons and of organizations that commit, threaten to commit
or support terrorism

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977)

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Antibribery Provisions

Joint Agency Guidance on Enhanced Scrutiny for Transactions That May
Involve the Proceeds of Foreign Official Corruption, January 2001

International Instruments

OAS Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (1996)
Adopted at the third plenary session meeting, held on March 29, 1996

Convention on Combatting Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in
International Business Transactions (1997)
Adopted on 21 November 1997, by OECD Member countries
and five non-member countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile
and the Slovak Republic), with signing in Paris on 17 December 1997.
The Convention represents an important step in the concerted
international effort to criminalise bribery and reduce the rampant
corruption in world economies. It aims to stop the flow of bribe
money for the purpose of obtaining international business deals
and to strengthen domestic anti-corruption efforts aimed at
raising standards of governance and increasing civil society participation.

OECD Anti-Bribery Unit of OECD Convention and Other Instruments
OECD anti-corruption instruments and how they are being
implemented. Also, an overview of OECD instruments against
corruption and information about the OECD Convention and how
it relates to other OECD instruments against corruption.

Lima Declaration Against Corruption
Concluded at the 8th International Conference Against Corruption, held
September 7 to 11, 1997, in Lima, Peru. The conference brought
together senior figures from international organizations and aid agencies,
representatives of governments, officers of anti-corruption
agencies and professional associations, as well as
journalists, academics, businessmen, and representatives
of civil society.

Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, Financial Action
Task Force on Money Laundering, October 2001
Recognising the vital importance of taking action to combat the financing
of terrorism, the FATF has agreed to these Recommendations, which,
when combined with the FATF Forty Recommendations on money
laundering, set out the basic framework to detect, prevent and
suppress the financing of terrorism and terrorist acts.

Forty Recommendations, Financial Action
Task Force on Money Laundering, 1996