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Biens mal acquis (French: Ill-gotten goods) is a phrase used in French courts for litigation seeking the repayment of assets stolen from poor countries by corrupt officials. The phrase refers to anti-corruption legal proceedings against former dictators and strongmen outside of their country, the seizure of assets within the country of the legal proceedings, and the return of the assets to the country from which they were embezzled.
Examples of biens mal acquis are government funds from former colonies of Françafrique that were spent on luxurious lifestyles and investment real estate in France. The doctrine has since been used in similar cases filed in Spain, Switzerland and Monaco, and against the Marcos family and the estate of Sani Abacha.
and the estate of Sani Abacha. The phrase biensmalacquis is derived from the French proverb bienmalacquis ne profite jamais meaning "a thing dishonorably...
Accounting scandals Anti-globalization movement Appearance of corruption Biensmalacquis Business ethics Business oligarch Bribe Payers Index Blue wall of silence...
Economist. Alicante served as an expert witness in an unprecedented "Biensmalacquis" case in Paris against the Equatoguinean Vice President, which resulted...
2019. "Le clan Sassou Nguesso pourrait être visé par un procès de "biensmalacquis" en France". Voice of America. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original...
L'adjudant-chef Sandri Maria Chapdelaine (1934) - Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux Bienmalacquis (1934) The Coquelet Affair (1935) - Poireau, le jardinier Golgotha...
abuse (misuse) of official authority. See § abus de pouvoir below. abus de biens sociaux ⟶ misuse of a company's property or credit abus de confiance ⟶ misappropriation...
was interviewed in septembre 2015 by the French judge on the dite « biensmalacquis » focusing on the Congolese président and other members of the family...
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