Unexplained Wealth and Financial Crime: A Global Perspective

This book considers the growing and emerging issue of unexplained wealth and how this issue fits within the larger challenge of financial and economic crime. The collection provides a rich and robust contribution to the dearth of knowledge in this space. Contributions are drawn from legal practitioners, academics, and experts from the Global South, Global North, and the Asia- Pacific region, who share their insights into the methods and approaches that have been utilised to tackle unexplained wealth in their respective countries. Each author provides a comprehensive critique of the current regime in addressing the issue and identifies failings. The volume further considers how unexplained wealth can be recognised as an important category, similar in this respect to fraud, bribery, corruption, and tax evasion amongst others. Establishing the issue of unexplained wealth as an independent area of research, the book will be essential reading for researchers, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of financial and economic crime, banking law, and international corporate governance.

Folashade Adeyemo is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Liverpool, UK. Fola is a leading academic in the commercial law space, and her areas of interest are in banking and financial regulation (focusing largely on the Global South region), whistleblower protection (focusing on the both the Global South and Global North). Fola has also published in the area of financial crime.

Nicholas Ryder is a Professor of Financial Crime at the University of Cardiff, UK. He has conducted policy-oriented research in financial crime and has played advisory roles both nationally and internationally. He has published extensively in the area of financial crime.