This article contributes a critical study of efforts to internationalize the investigation and prosecution of corruption.The efforts to internationalize anticorruption enforcement are visible, for instance, in calls for an International Anticorruption Court (IACC) or ivoryjinelle.com an Anticorruption Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (APUNCAC).Inspired by a historical sociological perspective, this article investigates mobilizations around these initiatives, how mobilizers frame their engagement, and the ideological context in which they operate.In particular, the article zooms in on elites and how they push for states to internationalize the investigation and prosecution of corruption.This article situates the efforts depileve easy clean of these elites in a larger historical context and compares the push to internationalize anticorruption enforcement to earlier legal mobilizations in the field of international criminal justice focused on atrocity crimes.