New global anti-corruption network / Indonesia KPK weakened / Mongolia investigators workload

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UN hails new anti-corruption network, as ‘important step’ to build trust, promote justice.  “With factors contributing to transnational corruption becoming increasingly complex, the UN launched [the Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities] to “empower all countries” to find practical solutions and better tools to track, investigate and prosecute the scourge.”

UN News: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1093302  

 

Dismissals following controversial civics test further weaken Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency KPK (Statement).  “The decision to dismiss prominent anti-corruption investigators and commissioners will cast a shadow over the independence of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission…also known as KPK…Transparency International urges President Joko Widodo to use his executive powers for initiating the reversal of these damaging reforms to ensure KPK’s capacity to perform its important role, in adherence with Indonesia’s international commitments.”

Transparency International: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/dismissals-controversial-civics-test-further-weaken-indonesia-anti-corruption-agency-kpk  

 

Mongolia: high workload of investigators negatively affects the fight against corruption.  “The level of corruption in a country is highly dependent on the activities of the Anti-Corruption Authority, which is usually the only entity authorized to detect and investigate corruption crimes. Therefore, it is possible to fight corruption effectively by keeping the workload of the Anti-Corruption Authority’s investigators at a normal level and conducting investigations efficiently.”

Indepdent Authority Against Corruption of Mongolia: https://www.iaac.mn/news/mongolia-high-workload-of-investigators-negatively-affects-the-fight-against-corruption/  

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