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More international cooperation needed to fight corruption
More international cooperation needed to fight corruption
22/8/17
Anti-corruption
authorities and law enforcement agencies from 21 APEC member economies vowed to
strengthen their cross-border efforts to fight money laundering and bribery at
a workshop held on Aug 19 during the APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM 3) in
HCM City.
The
80 delegates at the 4th Meeting of the APEC Network of
Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies agreed that
“corruption erodes social integrity and fairness, undermines government
accountability and public trust, and impedes healthy economic growth.”
Speaking
at the meeting, Nguyễn Văn Thanh, Government deputy inspector general and chair
of the meeting, said: “Greater cooperation is needed in combating money
laundering and recovering stolen assets, and promoting international
cooperation in bribery cases, repatriation of fugitives, and informal
international cooperation.”
“I
believe that our deliberations at this meeting will facilitate direct
connections among law enforcement agencies, and create a platform for
international cooperation in information exchange, mutual legal assistance,
extradition, asset recovery and joint investigation of corruption cases,” he
added.
The
Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group’s Pathfinder Dialogue IV was
also held on Saturday. Corruption as a driver of illegal logging and the use of
anti-corruption activities by customs’ offices dealing with the forest trade
were the main topics discussed.
What
is “grand corruption” and how can it be combated on the domestic and
international levels? Is it only about the amount of money or also about the
corruption’s quality? These questions were raised during the panel “Willing and
Able to Prosecute Grand Corruption” at the 17th International
Anti-Corruption Conference in Panama.
According
to Transparency International, grand corruption is the abuse of high-level
power that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and causes serious and
widespread harm to individuals and society. It often goes unpunished, and is
globally relevant, not only in individual countries but across borders.
Corruption
in Vietnam had caused resource losses, reducing the efficiency of public
investment, destroying trust of investors, and weakening national
competitiveness. Trịnh Xuân Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction
Corporation (PVC) was found to have violated State regulations on economic
management resulting in losses of nearly VNĐ3.3 trillion (US$142 million) for
PVC during his leadership.
After he fled to Germany, Vietnamese police earlier issued an arrest warrant. In this case, German authority should cooperate with Vietnam at first to arrest him. Unfortunately, when he gave himself up, the German government also claimed that he was abducted and caused diplomatic crisis between the two countries. It is so regrettable.
After he fled to Germany, Vietnamese police earlier issued an arrest warrant. In this case, German authority should cooperate with Vietnam at first to arrest him. Unfortunately, when he gave himself up, the German government also claimed that he was abducted and caused diplomatic crisis between the two countries. It is so regrettable.
Vietnam needs stronger international cooperation to prevent and combat
corruption. We all know that corruption is a global problem that uses a global
network, and therefore it needs a global response. We should do our domestic
job, but at the same time we, all as independent nations, will not be able to
be effective without the international anti-corruption community and
international anti-corruption system./.
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All comments [ 4 ]
It's apperant that anti-corruption fight must be cooperated by all countries, not just a single one.
Vietnam fought corruptive official Trinh Xuan Thanh, but Germany did not cooperate, even they criticized Vietnam for the capture of Thanh. So unconstructive acts!
The country has made positive steps in improving legal frameworks and policies on anti-corruption, it said, including passing the Law on Access to Information and revising the Law on Anti-Corruption 10 years after they were originally issued.
Vietnam has issued a national strategy on corruption prevention and control up to 2020. Vietnam has also been fine-tuning its legal system to fight corruption.
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