Anticorruption | Open Society Institute

Corruption and Its Consequences In Equatorial Guinea
July 2009
Equatorial Guinea is one of the world's wealthiest nations, yet the country�s citizens live in desperate poverty. This OSI paper raises the question: if money from the sale of natural resources isn�t benefiting its citizens, where is it going?

About Anticorruption
The Open Society Justice Initiative is working to create a legal environment that blocks the theft of public assets, bribery, and money laundering in countries with abundant natural resources.

Pillage Litigation
The Open Society Justice Initiative is working to revive the use of pillage charges to combat corporate involvement in resource wars.

West African Anticorruption Monitoring
The Open Society Justice Initiative is working with local organizations to independently monitor anticorruption agencies in Nigeria.

APDHE v. Obiang Family
This case before a Spanish court involves massive sums of money allegedly diverted by the President of Equatorial Guinea to buy property in Spain and the Canary Islands for his family.

APDHE v. Equatorial Guinea
This case before the African Commission on Human and Peoples� Rights challenges a small clique of ruling families in Equatorial Guinea who reap huge profits through corruption and monopoly control of the national petro-carbon industry, while ordinary citizens live in poverty.

Spain Investigates President of Equatorial Guinea for Laundering Oil Money
Press Release
August 3, 2009
After thirty years of corrupt rule in Equatorial Guinea, Spanish courts are finally taking a serious look at what the ruling family does with the nation's oil wealth, reports the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Legal Remedies for the Resource Curse
September 6, 2005
The Open Society Justice Initiative released a report assessing the availability of legal remedies for addressing corrupt practices in the natural resource industries.