Non governmental organizations can play a critical role in the identification and subsequent prosecution of those who have acquired ill-gotten wealth. Looming investigations into the booty of foreign leaders from Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo-Brazzaville etc. point to this possibility:
The question should be, How does this become a world-wide policy?
...None of the actions, including that against Mr Assad, were initiated by the French government – although Tracfin, the French financial intelligence agency, has supplied court investigators with evidence of alleged money laundering in several African cases, officials say. The foreign ministry declined to comment on the cases, saying they were a judicial matter.More here
Instead the cases have been launched by two closely linked organisations: the French arm of Transparency International, a group that campaigns internationally against corruption, and Sherpa, an anti-corruption association of French lawyers.
A 2010 legal ruling in France allowing non-governmental organisations such as Transparency International to bring anti-corruption cases opened the way for investigations into claims of corporate corruption as well as actions against alleged individual corruption.
The question should be, How does this become a world-wide policy?