Enhanced connectivity: Anti-graft capacity building for new ties afar

Establishing more new ties

While in Croatia, Mr Peh held bilateral meetings with about 20 delegations from Eastern and Central Europe attending the GRECO conference to initiate talks on collaboration in capacity building training for anti-corruption agencies of these countries.

At these meetings, ICAC’s customised training programmes were introduced to ministerial rank officials, heads of anti-corruption authorities and prosecutors. Some counterparts had already indicated interest in lining up capacity building programmes on specific areas such as forensic accounting and preventive education in 2019.

Locally, tailor-made ICAC services were introduced to delegations from the Independent Authority Against Corruption of Mongolia and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission of Kenya visiting the ICAC in August and September respectively.

And just this month, two ICAC delegations travelled to Cambodia and Myanmar separately to deliver customised training programmes on anti-corruption investigation and education for graft-fighting agencies of the two places.

In Phnom Penh, about 30 officers of the Anti-Corruption Unit of Cambodia received a six-day training module, covering in-depth law-enforcement knowledge such as interviewing corruption complainants and suspects, planning arrest operations, preparation for prosecutions as well as forensic accounting and computer forensics.

Simultaneously, in the same week in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, a five-day module was provided to the Anti-Corruption Commission of Myanmar. Over 30 officers learnt first-hand from visiting ICAC officers the strategy for community education and public engagement in the fight against corruption, as well as promoting integrity in the public and private sectors.