At the invitation of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Dean of College of Comparative Law Prof. Gao Xiang attended the UNCITRAL Expert Group Meeting on Commercial Fraud in Vienna, Austria on 28-29 April, 2013.
The meeting invited 10 anti-fraud experts from worldwide to study and modify the items of Indicators of Commercial Fraud before its promulgation. They then held a discussion in-detail on further working plan.
At the end of the meeting, Prof. Gao and the Secretary-General of UNCITRAL Mr. Renaud Sorieul discussed on the possibility and ways of cooperation. Mr. Sorieul also accepted Gao's invitation to attend the Second International Conference on Common Law and Global Law in coming September.
UNCITRAL has been giving priority to the international business fraud issue since its 35th meeting in 2002. It respectively organized academic conference and large-scale seminar in December, 2012 and April, 2004 at the headquarter of the UNCITRAL in Vienna. More than 130 experts, scholars, governmental officials and other related public figures have attended these symposiums. Prof. Gao attended the above two conferences and participated in the organization work of the seminar held in April, 2004, which was the third time he attended UNCITRAL meetings.
After the seminar held in April, 2004, the UNCITRAL approved the research plan proposed by the Secretariat aiming at coordinating the anti-commercial fraud activities organized by the authorities and international community. Since this approval, the Secretariat organized another several expert meetings, and an anti-commercial fraud document Indicators of Commercial Fraud, which contains 23 kinds of fraud behaviours, has been drafted on the basis of comprehensive opinions in the 42nd conference organized by the committee in 2008. This document is expected to be announced soon.
