UK's approach to combat graft
Statistics shows that developing countries are more corrupt. As a developing country, Bangladesh too is mired in corruption.
In 2004 the United Nations has passed a law to provide guidelines about how a country can prevent corruption -- article 1 of United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCaC). One of the purposes of this convention is to promote integrity, accountability and proper management of public affairs and public property. A country may have a corruption prevention law but if it does not comply with the UNCaC, then it will not be able to cooperate in preventing corruption in the international level. It has given direction about how to freeze, seize and confiscate the suspected properties (Art. 31); how to prevent and detect transfers of proceeds of crime (Art. 52); how to recover property internationally (Art. 54) and so on. Despite too many laws to prevent corruption, UK has launched a unique Bribery Act 2010. It has practically showed the way to detect a briber and how to prevent corruption by stopping bribery.
Now the question is how far our ACC is applying its power to uphold transparency. I also want to ask how strong and viable our laws are to prevent corruption. If the British can follow USA's laws in this particular field, why can't we at least do a comparison to reform or upgrade our current approach towards prevention of corruption.
I believe government needs to do a thorough research about how the laws and a commission can work independently, if we really want transparency in all our transactions.
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