Asanda Matlhare The Covid-19 investigations of the value of contracts awarded to service providers totaled more than R14.2 billion. A vaccine syringe is prepared as elderly South Africans receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Munsieville Centre for the Aged, 17 May 2021, as part of phase 2 of the vaccine campaign. Picture: Michel Bega The extent to which corruption affected countries’ monitoring their healthcare responses to Covid-19 is highlighted by two reports: the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) personal protective equipment tenders report that correlates with the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) results, released by Transparency International. Liezl Groenewald, a business ethicist at the Ethics Institute, said corruption in South Africa was rife because people’s behaviour was determined and influenced
Mexico scores poorly on anti-corruption assessment The country scored high on anti-corruption legislation but low on execution of the laws
Published on Tuesday, May 18, 2021
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Mexico has ranked third last in an anti-corruption assessment of eight Latin American countries conducted by the United States-based Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice.
The Vance Center, part of the New York City Bar Association, completed a regional study that analyzed legal efforts to prevent and combat corruption in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Peru.
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Latin America Anticorruption Assessment 2020 addressed eight aspects that it sees as crucial to the fight against corruption: public and private sector corruption; complaint mechanisms; whistleblower protection by specialized governmental bodies; institutional coordination mechanisms; civil society engagement and participation and transparency and access to information.
Indonesian law enforcers call for financial approach to fight illegal logging
by Lusia Arumingtyas on 6 May 2021
Law enforcement officials in Indonesia have called for using anti-money-laundering statutes to go after illegal loggers.
Illegal logging is the most common environmental crime currently handled by the country’s forestry ministry, but enforcement tends to focus on the perpetrators on the ground.
By treating illegal timber as a commodity, say officials from the Attorney General’s Office and the anti-money-laundering agency, enforcers can take a financial crimes approach that also goes after those perpetrators higher up the trafficking chain.
They also identified addressing corruption as a key step in tackling illegal logging, noting that perpetrators are known to bribe officials.
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) based on experts and the perceptions of business people of corruption in 180 countries. We spoke with O. Batbayar, CEO of “Transparency International Mongolia”, about the level of corruption within Mongolia according to the Corruption Perceptions Index.
He said that Mongolia had a score of 35 this year. The 2019 index was also 35. The Corruption Perceptions Index for Mongolia is based on a combination of surveys and assessments of corruption from 9 different sources.
The CPI assesses the Rule of law index, and risks such as corruption and political influence in the judiciary, environment, social, health, and economic risks, Sovereign risk, Banking sector risk, Economic structure risk, and Political risk. All of these indicators related to corruption are evaluated in the Corruption Perceptions Index. For Mongolia, some scores saw an inc
April 22, 2021 at 9:29 am | Published in: Iraq, Middle East, News
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in London, UK on 22 October 2020 [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images] April 22, 2021 at 9:29 am
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi cancelled the licences for 1,128 investment projects on Wednesday due to their low completion rate,
Anadolu has reported. Al-Kadhimi gave the order for the move during a visit to Iraq s Investment Authority. All licences for projects with a completion rate of between 0 and 35 per cent and which have failed to meet deadlines have been cancelled, said the prime minister s office.
Al-Kadhimi took the opportunity to explain to investors that he will adhere to the provisions of Article 28 of the Investment Law which stipulates the sending of warning notices regarding unfinished projects. He directed the National Investment Commission to supervise and follow up the implementation of all such procedures.