Global Enterprise and Private Profits: How the Citizens and the Public Interest Are Being Shortchanged

The plot of the book is about how the rule of law functions to protect corporate structures that facilitate the commission of globalized fraud and abuse. The rules of law are used to dilute and hide accountability of high managerial agents and controlling persons, performing as a tool in aid of centralized and concentrated capital interests, devouring and destabilizing small-to-medium-sized companies. The theories and concepts developed in the book chapters are explored then applied to a real case and controversy--a mega-fraudulent bankruptcy in Argentina. In the zone of the world’s largest grain manufacturing and exporting port complex, the VICENTIN SAIC default illustrates poignantly the premises of the book.

The book will be a good tool to illustrate to students how globalized financial capitalism may perform predation of other actors in a given domestic real economy; what are the origins and abuses of corporate law in the transnational context; what factors influence the economies of emergent countries in Latin America; and what should be the protective role of law. These concepts can be learned and applied in higher education and post-degree students through this study of allegations of mega-fraud arising from the VICENTIN complex of companies based in Argentina, including consideration of the role of Glencore Ltd.

Javier Ortega is Professor of Criminal Law in Argentina, doctor in Public Law and Government Economics (UNT), doctor in Political Science (UCM) and has a master’s degree in Latin American Economic Development (UNIA). He has extensive experience as an attorney in the public sector.

David Shapiro is a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college within the City University of New York. He has a master’s degree in business administration and a juris doctor degree in law. David Shapiro has experience in the public and private sectors, focusing on fraud examination, financial forensics, and inspection and oversight.