As a world-leading and full-service counter-corruption consultancy, we understand completely at PAVOCAT the various challenges associated with resolving corruption problems solely within the limited confines of national criminal justice systems and mechanisms. PAVOCAT Mediation provides client states with an alternative method of dealing with individuals and entities suspected of engaging in corrupt practices, whether historically or currently.

Of course, states need the ability to resolve known or suspected instances of corruption.  However, criminal investigations and prosecutions of those accused of soliciting, receiving or paying bribes are resource intensive, hugely expensive and involve expertise that a state’s law enforcement authorities might not possess.  PAVOCAT Mediation overcomes these difficulties by helping to achieve a successful and appropriate outcome of a case of corruption through the provision of our innovative and specialist Counter-Corruption Mediation Service.

PAVOCAT Mediation draws its inspiration from ‘truth and reconciliation’ initiatives conducted successfully in a number of countries around the world.  It is based in no small part on the realisation that the state is ultimately responsible for permitting its corrupt public officials to solicit bribes from companies and individuals operating within its jurisdiction.  Mediation offers a highly successfully and well-established means of resolving a dispute.  We have therefore combined all of these factors into a unique service that avoids the need to investigate criminality and thereafter to prosecute and imprison corrupt actors, while at the same time ensuring that their behaviour is dealt with in a transparent, efficient and effective manner.  Wherever possible, or appropriate, we would also seek to achieve recovery of assets.

PAVOCAT Mediation in the form of its Counter-Corruption Mediation Service achieves for a client state a swift, just and socially progressive alternative solution to dealing with corporations, companies and individuals who have fallen foul of its corrupt officials.  It can be operated independently or as an integrated part of a state’s criminal justice system.