Compensation claims are measures used by the Swiss justice system to ensure that the fruits of corruption do not benefit the convicted company. They are therefore set according to the profits made by the company as a result of the corruption. In the case of Gunvor, this amounted to CHF 90 million. This sum was paid to the Swiss Confederation.

Swiss law provides for the sharing of compensation claims with the country where the corruption took place only if there was judicial cooperation between the two countries. In the Gunvor case, the presidential family of Sassou NGuesso is directly involved in the corruption case, according to the judgment of the Federal Criminal Court of 28 August 2018, so the Confederation kept the CHF 90 million.

However, it seems unfair that thes compensation claims ultimately benefit Switzerland. The victims of these corruption cases are the population of the countries where these companies engaged in corrupting practices and these victims should be able to ultimately benefit from these "ill-gotten gains". In the case of Gunvor, this is the Republic of Congo and the Ivory Coast. The money should therefore be redistributed to their inhabitants through projects of development, promotion of human rights or fight against corruption, via local or Swiss civil society organisations, or via the Swiss development agency.

In addition to the CHF 90 million from the Gunvor case, Switzerland has benefited from several tens of millions of francs from other corruption cases.