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OAS ANTI-CORRUPTION
MECHANISM ADOPTS
At
its Twenty-Third Meeting, held March 18 – 21, the Committee of Experts
of the Follow-up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) adopted the
A
significant portion
of the report
focused on examination of those oversight bodies in
The
examination was carried out taking into account
Some of the recommendations formulated to
With regard to the CPCCS: strengthening inter-institutional coordination;
implementing internal regulations for processing complaints,
allegations, and claims related to the pursuit of its objectives and to
the performance of its personnel; creation of an Internal Audit Unit;
and strengthening the institution by providing it with the human and
budgetary resources necessary to ensure full compliance with its duties
of preventing, detecting, and investigating acts of corruption..
Regarding the FGE: updating its post classification manual; strengthening
the institution by providing it with the human and budgetary resources
necessary to ensure full compliance with its duties; strengthening
information systems and procedures to streamline the preliminary inquiry
and follow-up process in order ensure the timely processing of cases,
particularly those related to corruption; and the removal of obstacles,
so prosecutorial inquiries into the crimes of embezzlement and illicit
enrichment can be launched promptly.
Pertaining to the CGE: finalize the implementation of the Organic
Organizational Process Management Statute of the Comptroller General’s
Office; strengthening the institution by providing it with the human and
budgetary resources necessary to ensure full compliance with its duties
of overseeing the statements of net worth presenting by employees of the
public administration; and developing mechanisms for the more efficient
and expeditious restitution of harm caused to the State.
With respect to the agencies of the Judiciary and the Judicature Council:
implementing the new judicial career; implementing the Organic
Functional Post Classification Manual and the Occupational Index of the
Judicature Council, together with their corresponding internal manuals;
implementing the Organic Organizational Process Management Statute of
the Judicature Council; and establishing an comprehensive information
system to gather data on the substantiation of different types of crimes
in general and specifically those considered in the Convention.
Some of the recommendations still pending from the First Round or have been
reformulated address issues such as:
strengthening the oversight agency responsible for the
implementation of the Law on Transparency and Access to Public
Information, continuing to enforce measures for the imposition of
restrictions on those leaving public service, and repealing its
desacato contempt laws.
The best practices regarding which Ecuador provided information involved,
essentially, the FGE’s implementation of the Integrated System of
Prosecutorial Actions (SIAF) which seeks, inter alia, to reduce the
backlog of cases related to reports of indications of criminal liability
submitted by the CGE; and the creation of the Judicial Function’s
Management Transparency Unit, the powers and responsibilities of which
include ensuring transparency and efficiency in the Judicial Function
and strengthening inter-institutional anticorruption coordination. |
Edition N° 172 - March 2014
The Mechanism For Follow-up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to
support the development of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption through
cooperation between States Parties.
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