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From September 30 to October 2, 2014, Venezuela received, with its
consent, an on site visit by the Commission of the OAS Anticorruption
Mechanism (Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the
Inter-American Convention against Corruption – MESICIC), as part of the
review process of said Mechanism, carried out in accordance with the
Methodology adopted by consensus by its Member States.
The Commission was composed by the delegations of
During the three days of work, the members of the Commission met
with the top authorities and other representatives of the Office of the
Comptroller General; the Office of the Attorney General; the Supreme
Court; the National Office of Internal Audit, and the Office of the
Ombudsman, in order to obtain objective and complete information
regarding the implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption in Venezuela.
The Commission also had the opportunity to meet with
representatives of civil society and private sector organizations, as
well as academics, in order to address issues related to civil society
participation in public administration; mechanisms of access to
information; and the role of oversight bodies in the prevention,
detection, investigation, prosecution and punishment of acts of
corruption in
This on site visit forms part of the review process that is
currently being carried out by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC,
and which will conclude with the adoption of the Venezuela report by the
Committee at its next meeting to be held in March 2015, in Washington DC
at OAS Headquarters.
The MESICIC is a cooperation mechanism between States, with the
participation of civil society organizations, established within the
framework of the OAS, in which the legal/institutional framework of each
country is reviewed for suitability with the Inter-American Convention
against Corruption as well as the objective results achieved therein.
The incorporation of on-site visits as a stage and integral part of the
MESICIC review process represents an innovative and pioneering
initiative in the context of the OAS, especially for a peer review
mechanism and the importance of the issues it addresses. |
Edition N° 194 - September 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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