Legislative immunity / Hong Kong judgment / Indonesia authority

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The Right Amount of Legislative Immunity. (op-ed)  "There is a reason most democracies have some form of legislative immunity: not because individual legislators should be shielded from prosecution, but because the legislature as an institution should be protected from intrusion and second-guessing by prosecutors and the judiciary."

Courtney Millian/Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2016/07/25/the-right-amount-of-legislative-immunity/

Hong Kong: Money Laundering Does Not Require Actual Knowledge.  The recent judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in HKSAR v Yeung Ka Sing Carson1 has confirmed, among other things, that on a charge of dealing with proceeds of crime contrary to s 25 (1) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance, the prosecution only needs to show that when an accused dealt with certain property, he or she knew, or had reasonable grounds to believe that such property represented the proceeds of an indictable offence.

Cynthia Tang, Mini vandePol, Bryan Ng, Anthony Poon and Roberta Chan/Global Compliance News: http://globalcompliancenews.com/hong-kong-court-final-appeal-confirms-money-laundering-offence-not-require-actual-knowledge-20160720/

Indonesian anti-corruption agency wants authority to investigate private-sector corruption.  About 24% of corruption cases that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigates involves private entities, which is why the KPK -- currently limited to investigating cases involving more than Rp 1 billion (US $76,274) and implicating government officials -- has asked for authority to investigate private sector graft.

Anton Hermansyah/The Jakarta Post: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/07/26/kpk-wants-authority-to-investigate-private-sector-corruption.html

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