AN INDEPTH ANALYSIS ON CORRUPTION
THE BASICS, FACTS AND FIGURES This blog paper seeks to study the agitation leading up to the declaration of corruption as a crime against humanity and the ramifications thereto. It also portrays grand corruption in its truest form with a collage of depictions from the world’s renowned scholars. This is a legal, theoretical, practical, political and ethical discourse drawing immensely from current affairs to advance its postulations. The first part shows grand corruption as a crime against humanity, the second part deals with the investigation and prosecution of grand corruption as a crime against humanity, and with a righteous bias, making a case for universal jurisdiction. GRAND CORRUPTION AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY There is no universally agreed definition of corruption, however some usually define it as, ‘an illegal act that involves the abuse of a public trust or office for some private benefit’, or ‘the misuse of public office for private gain.’ Corruption com