Institutional and substantive responses to economic and transnational organised crime: An African regional perspective

Kemp, Gerhard

Abstract

Corporate conduct can have devastating effects on the social, governance, and economic systems of states and regions. The drafters of the Malabo Protocol of the African Union opted to include corporate criminal liability as a mode of liability, thus making it possible for the proposed African Criminal Court to try corporations for international and transnational crimes. This chapter provides an overview of relevant aspects of the Malabo Protocol, notably the transnational crimes of corruption, money laundering, various trafficking offences, and the crime of illicit exploitation of natural resources. The brief discussion of the specific crimes is followed by a critical assessment of corporate criminal liability as a mode of liability under the Malabo Protocol.

• Online Publication Date: Aug 28, 2024
• Publication Date: Aug 28, 2024
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 1, 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: Corporate Criminal Liability and Sanctions
• Chapter Number: 16
• ISBN: 9781032349961
• Keywords: economic and transnational crime, Malabo Protocol, African Union law
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11139601
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Corporate-Criminal-Liability-and-Sanctions-Current-Trends-and-Policy-Changes/Meiselles-Ryder-Visconti/p/book/9781032349961
• Contract Date: Sep 27, 2023