FACTI Panel report / Philippines mayor wins US award / IACA mutual legal assistance course

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UN Panel: End financial abuses to save people and planet (Press release and Report).  “Governments can finance critical action on extreme poverty, COVID-19 and the climate crisis and by recovering the billions of dollars lost through tax abuse, corruption and money-laundering, says a UN panel. The High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI Panel) is calling on governments to agree to a Global Pact for Financial Integrity for Sustainable Development.”

Direct link to the report: https://www.factipanel.org/report

FACTI: https://www.factipanel.org/press-release/un-panel-end-financial-abuses-to-save-people-and-planet    

 

‘Denormalize corruption,’ says Vico Sotto after getting US State Department award.  ““Thank you to the US Department of State for this recognition. But more than the recognition, I hope this helps raise awareness. If we want better long-term governance, we need to fight corruption. We have to denormalize it, get it out of our culture,” Sotto said…after he was announced as one of the 12 recipients of the US State Department’s International Anti-Corruption Champion Award.”

Gabriel Pabico Lalu/The Inquirer: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1399898/denormalize-corruption-vico-sotto-hopes-citation-sparks-awareness-over-governance

 

International Anticorruption Academy Spring Course on Obtaining Mutual Legal Assistance (Blog).  “It is the rare corruption investigation today that does not cross one or more national boundaries…How to speed the process of obtaining evidence from another country while avoiding common missteps is the focus of a four-week, online course offered by the International Anticorruption Academy April 12 through May 8, 2021.”

Direct link to the course page for further details and registration: https://www.iaca.int/iaca-programmes/online-training/mutual-legal-assistance-mla.html

Richard Messick/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/02/24/international-anticorruption-academy-spring-course-on-obtaining-mutual-legal-assistance/

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