Pacific Anti-Corruption Updates (15 May 2020): PNG, Fiji, Solomon Islands

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These updates are provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Anti-Corruption Project for Southeast Asia, and the joint UNODC - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption (UN-PRAC) Project, with support of the Australian Government. 

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PNG:  

Burdensome processes give rise to corruption: IRC “Coming from an anti-corruption background, a lot of corruption at the bureaucratic and low level corruption is caused by the process itself”  

  

 

FIJI:  

Thirty-three years after the first military coup, Fiji is still a failed democracy Corruption is out of control, with nepotism and cronyism destroying the civil service. This has resulted in poor decision making and wastage of already scarce resource. 

  

 

Government MPs directed to submit claims of allowances This following allegation of possible breaches of travel and accommodation allowances involving certain Members of Parliament. 

 


SOLOMON ISLANDS:  

New COVID-19 regulation effected “Offence of deception for committing fraud is also incorporated under this regulation and a person may commit an offence if, during the emergency period, the person deceives another person with the intent to obtain money, property or benefits from another person by giving that other person the impression that he or she would be giving them money, property or benefit for a public safety measure,” he said. 

 

 

 

To know more about the UN Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption Project please contact the team members: 

Annika Wythes, Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser, UNODC, annika.wythes@un.org 

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