Sanctions

ADB imposes sanctions on parties that have engaged in fraudulent, corrupt, coercive, collusive, obstructive practices, or other integrity violations.

In accordance with the Cross Debarment Agreement, ADB may cross debar parties that have been debarred by any of the participating multilateral development banks (MDBs), and vice versa.

To ensure a consistent approach, participating MDBs agreed on harmonized principles for sanctions and treatment of corporate groups. Each participating institution may incorporate these guidelines into their respective processes for considerations of sanctions.

The following statistics provide an overview on the number of firms and individuals ineligible to participate in any ADB-financed activity, those whose eligibility have been reinstated, and those who have been imposed with other remedial measures.

Sanctions as of 28 February 2023	Firms1	Individuals2
Total declared ineligible to participate in ADB-financed activity3	3,172	1,182
Currently ineligible to participate in ADB-financed activity	1,673	878
ADB Sanctions	1,016	660
Cross debarred entities submitted by Multilateral Development Banks4	657	218
Reinstated	1,499	304
Upon appeal	14	9
Upon completion of ineligibility	371	123
Upon completion of cross debarment	1,114	172
Cautioned/reprimanded	503	289

¹Debarred entities are ineligible to participate in ADB activities. A debarred firm’s ineligibility extends to all employees and officers of a firm, and may extend to other principals and contractual employees of the firm.

²Debarred individuals may not participate in ADB-related activity, as individuals or through nomination by an eligible firm, unless they have completely disassociated themselves with an ineligible firm.

³Since 1998 when ADB's Anticorruption Policy was established.

⁴African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank.

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Sanctions period

The base sanction for integrity violations is 3-year debarment. The Integrity Oversight Committee (IOC) may impose a greater or lesser debarment period depending on the circumstances of each case. The IOC will be guided by the following ranges:

Debarment	Individuals	Firms
First debarments, including cases where a party has previously been given a reprimand	up to indefinite	up to 7 years
Second debarments	up to indefinite	up to 10 years
Subsequent debarments	up to indefinite	up to 20 years

Sanctions list

• ADB complete Sanctions List [authorized users only]

  Full list of entities that ADB sanctioned (includes published list)

• Published sanctions list

  Sanctions violations, second and subsequent violations, debarred entities who are uncontactable, cross debarred entities

• Cross debarred entities

  Firms and individuals debarred by other multilateral development banks (MDBs) that ADB cross debarred

• Case summaries

  Synopsis of ADB cases involving debarred entities

Sanctions lists of other multilateral development banks (MDBs):

• African Development Bank
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Inter-American Development Bank
• World Bank