This year’s twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is an opportunity for reflection. With 190 parties as of October 2023, the UNCAC is the only legally binding international anti-corruption agreement. The treaty’s framework sets forth a comprehensive set of measures to prevent and combat corruption, calls for criminalization of the most prevalent misconduct, and requires member states to return assets obtained through this crime to the country from which they were stolen. The convention further calls for sanctions to be extended to those who participate in an attempt to commit corruption.