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chasing stolen money across borders until it apologizes and comes home.
means the legal process of tracing, freezing, and returning assets that were stolen, laundered, or hidden through corruption or crime.
from emerged as a formal discipline in the 1990s and 2000s as globalization made it trivial to hide stolen wealth abroad, prompting treaties like the UN Convention Against Corruption to force it back.
un estimateover 40 billion dollars stolen from developing nations yearly
average timelinecases often take five to twenty years to resolve
famous casemarcos family billions still being clawed back decades later