ICAC to host international anti-graft forum
2000-11-9
More than 400 delegates representing 35 jurisdictions and four international and regional bodies will converge in Hong Kong next week to take part in the First ICAC Symposium.
Alongside an array of experts from the business sector, the delegates coming from 140 government agencies and private organisations worldwide, including that of Hong Kong and the Mainland, will delve on practical anti-graft enforcement issues during the t hree-day conference.
The First ICAC Symposium with the theme “New Era, New Challenge” will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre between Monday and Wednesday next week (November 13- 15).
ICAC’s Assistant Director of Operations Gilbert Chan Tak-shing said today (November 9) the Symposium would provide a valuable platform for all participants to exchange views on the latest corruption trends and possible ways to counter anticipated challenges.
“The Symposium will also provide a good opportunity for us to strengthen existing links within the law enforcement fraternity and to forge new ones,” said Mr Chan, who is also the Symposium’s organising committee chairman.
“International co-operation is central to our fight against increasingly sophisticated and internationalised crime of corruption,” he added.
Responding to the growing criminal activities facilitated by rapid technological advances, the Symposium will devote two plenary sessions to the theme of information technology as a threat and a tool to law enforcement agencies.
The Symposium will also discuss the partnership approach involving both the government and the business sectors in instigating a three-pronged attack on corruption through enforcement, prevention and education.
Australia, Canada, Macau, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States as well as the Mainland would be sending sizeable delegations to the Symposium, Mr Chan noted.
Other participating jurisdictions include Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brunei, Columbia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Thailand.
Also attending will be representatives from the Asian Development Bank, Interpol, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation.
ICAC Commissioner Alan Lai Nin will deliver the welcoming address on Monday, November 13, to be followed by an opening address by the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal Andrew Li Kwok-nang.
Two plenary sessions on new corruption trends and new initiatives in the public and business sectors will be held on the same day.
The second day (November 14) will begin with a keynote speech by Microsoft’s Senior Corporate Attorney of the Law and Corporate Affairs Department, Tom Robertson. This will be followed by plenary sessions on information technology as a threat and tool to law enforcement agencies.
On the last day (November 15), Xu Jinhui, Deputy Director General, General Bureau of Anti-Corruption of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate from the Mainland will deliver a keynote speech.
Alongside an array of experts from the business sector, the delegates coming from 140 government agencies and private organisations worldwide, including that of Hong Kong and the Mainland, will delve on practical anti-graft enforcement issues during the t hree-day conference.
The First ICAC Symposium with the theme “New Era, New Challenge” will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre between Monday and Wednesday next week (November 13- 15).
ICAC’s Assistant Director of Operations Gilbert Chan Tak-shing said today (November 9) the Symposium would provide a valuable platform for all participants to exchange views on the latest corruption trends and possible ways to counter anticipated challenges.
“The Symposium will also provide a good opportunity for us to strengthen existing links within the law enforcement fraternity and to forge new ones,” said Mr Chan, who is also the Symposium’s organising committee chairman.
“International co-operation is central to our fight against increasingly sophisticated and internationalised crime of corruption,” he added.
Responding to the growing criminal activities facilitated by rapid technological advances, the Symposium will devote two plenary sessions to the theme of information technology as a threat and a tool to law enforcement agencies.
The Symposium will also discuss the partnership approach involving both the government and the business sectors in instigating a three-pronged attack on corruption through enforcement, prevention and education.
Australia, Canada, Macau, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States as well as the Mainland would be sending sizeable delegations to the Symposium, Mr Chan noted.
Other participating jurisdictions include Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brunei, Columbia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Thailand.
Also attending will be representatives from the Asian Development Bank, Interpol, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation.
ICAC Commissioner Alan Lai Nin will deliver the welcoming address on Monday, November 13, to be followed by an opening address by the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal Andrew Li Kwok-nang.
Two plenary sessions on new corruption trends and new initiatives in the public and business sectors will be held on the same day.
The second day (November 14) will begin with a keynote speech by Microsoft’s Senior Corporate Attorney of the Law and Corporate Affairs Department, Tom Robertson. This will be followed by plenary sessions on information technology as a threat and tool to law enforcement agencies.
On the last day (November 15), Xu Jinhui, Deputy Director General, General Bureau of Anti-Corruption of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate from the Mainland will deliver a keynote speech.