通过国际民事诉讼追回腐败资产的相关法律问题

Legal Issues of Recovery of Corruption Assets through International Civil Procedure

腐败行为和转移腐败资产的行为均损害社会公平正义、损害政府形象和社会的公信力,阻碍经济的健康发展。因此必须对腐败资产进行追回,使腐败犯罪分子无利可图,从而有效预防和打击腐败犯罪。《联合国反腐败公约》在第五十三条中规定了通过国际民事诉讼方式追回腐败资产,较之以往的刑事途径,民事诉讼较为新颖,但也存在一些问题,突出表现为国家作为原告的主体资格问题。

Both corruption and the transfer of corruption assets can harm social fairness and justice,damage the government image and the credibility of the society,and hinder the healthy development of the economy. Therefore,the corruption assets must be recovered so that corrupt criminals will get no profit and then we can effectively prevent and combat corruption crime. It is stipulated in Article53 of 'United Nations Convention against Corruption'that corruption assets can be recovered through international civil procedure. Compared with the previous criminal ways,civil procedure is relatively new. However,there are some problems such as the subject qualification of country as the plaintiff.