Hi my name is Devon Olinger and I will be your vice chair for NUNO. I am a

junior here at Mission and I have been involved in MUN for two years. A little bit

about myself is that I love to watch sports, mostly football and baseball, both

indoors and outdoors even though outdoors is more exciting. Since I was four years

old, I have been involved with competitive dance which requires lots of traveling, so

I have been overseas many times. In my free time I enjoy relaxing with friends at the

beach or going to concerts. I hope you enjoy Mission’s 31st Annual MUN conference

and I’ll see you soon!

Background:

Corruption and money laundering has been a major issue worldwide for long

periods of time. Corruption is a major obstacle when it comes to justice of law and

economic sustainability of the countries. Terrorist and organized criminals thrive off

of corruption in the public branch in order to keep their illegal activities on the

down low. This corruption can range from police officers, to politicians, to simple

business owners. The world community all suffers from corruption since it can start

from one country and trickle down to all countries. Corruption in the public branch

is a large problem that the international police faces

According to the International Police, money laundering is “any act or

attempted act to conceal or disguise the identity obtained proceeds so that they

appear to have originated from the original source”. In other words, money

laundering is when funds are illegally obtained and pushed through the system in

disguise as clean money. Illegal funds are moved around the world using money

transmitters and shell companies. This is how the illegal funds get flushed into the

legal economy. One of the common methods of money laundering is known as

“smurfing”, which is when a large sum of money is broken into smaller portions.

This is used so that anti- money laundering agencies do not detect abnormal sums of

money in a business. There are many other methods such as bulk cashing and over

purchasing as well.

UN and INTERPOL existing involvement:

Corruption and money laundering has been on the minds of Interpol and the

international community for a long time. Since Interpol is an international

organization, the most important resource that the countries use is the transferring

of information. Interpol has been developing a global exchange platform and a anti

corruption knowledge database. The international community has put together a

convention through the OECD to combat bribery in international business. Countries

that sign the convention agree to make it unlawful to bribe a foreign public official.

Lastly, the World Bank has very negative views towards bribery and corruption.

Former president James Wolfensohn described corruption as “Cancer” and has told

that the world banks policy will help countries that come for help in corruption. 24

counties have asked for help and the bank is active in about half of them.

Possible solutions:

As a representative in Interpol, you have to come up with a way to hammer

corruption at its core. If you try to cap corruption at its outward branches, then the

corruption will end up coming right back. Your biggest resource is cooperation and

communication. Make sure to understand your countries policies and economic

stability at this point in time. Since corruption is more common in lower developed

countries, it is important for lower and higher economic countries to work together

to demolish the problem.

Questions to consider

1) How is my country influenced by corruption?

2)What steps can be taken to stop corruption at the core, not just the outskirts?

3) How do we prevent the corruption of public officials?