NEW DELHI: India today asserted that the world community needed a strong and aligned international cooperation to bring to book fugitive economic offenders and their assets, as the countries individually are faced with challenges of combating graft, as wrongdoers move to safe haven elsewhere.
Addressing a special session of the UN General Assembly on “Challenges and measures to prevent corruption and strengthen international cooperation”, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, “India’s Fugitive Economic Offenders Act 2018 empowers authorities for non-conviction-based attachment and confiscation of proceeds of crime and assets of such wrongdoers against whom an arrest warrant in relation to a scheduled offence has been issued by any Indian court and who has left the country to avoid prosecution.”