BRICS weighs law-enforcement network to track economic fugitives

Source: The Hindu Business Line | Original Published At: 2026-09-08 07:29:08 UTC

Key Points

• India plans to seek stronger cooperation on tracking and extraditing economic fugitives at the forthcoming BRICS leaders’ summit.
• BRICS anti-corruption officials reached an in-principle agreement on a law-enforcement practitioners’ network at meetings in Hyderabad last month; operational details remain under discussion.
• The proposed network would support early, informal information exchanges while complementing formal extradition and mutual legal assistance procedures.
• Members welcomed a BRICS Repository on Informal Cooperation covering national practices and existing channels for tracing fugitives and supporting extradition.
• The BRICS Expert Network on Asset Recovery agreed on standardised formats for preliminary information exchanges and welcomed a directory of focal points and experts.