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2nd day of International Workshop in the MDCSU |
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20.07.2010 |
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The 2nd day of international seminar "Conflict of interest and corruption prevention" in the framework of European Commission instrument TAIEX has been finished.
Forensic Auditor Evert-Jan Lammers (Kingdom of Belgium) came forward
with his presentation "Monitoring and audit of property, revenues and
expenditure of civil servants". It was the experience of Belgium in the
fight against corruption in the part of income declaration of civil
servants. In particular, an expert told about specialized web site
Cumuleo (www.cumuleo.be), where by entering the names of certain
officials the information about whether they filed a income declaration,
information obtained about the inheritance of a given year and so on
can be found.
Experience on the identification and investigation of corruption
offenses in the Republic of Italy was introduced by Maurizio Varanese,
Chief Inspector of Police, Anti-Racket Commission. He emphasized that
the foremost in the minds of every citizen should be a clear
understanding about what is "corruption". Because while giving a bribe
people very often do not understand what they have done and what the
consequences will be nationwide. Expert in detail told about concepts of
"active corruption" and "passive corruption", the reasons that cause
them, as well as the basic preventive measures of these negative
phenomena, in particular under the example of the Italian Republic.
Maurizio Varanese also outlined the main methods of investigation of
corruption offenses and clearly illustrated the technical tools that may
help.
Tom McGoona, Former Head of Prevention and Internal Investigations of
United Kingdom Customs Service (Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland) spoke about the possibility of prevention of corruption in
public service through the implementation of disciplinary procedures.
And about gathering audit data provided by candidates for posts of civil
servants in Romania shared Laura Stefan, Romania Anticorruption
Coordinator of Romanian Academic Society. Presentations of experts were
accompanied by lively discussions between participants, including about
70 of them - international experts, representatives of ministries and
other central executive bodies of Ukraine.
Moderationship of the 2nd day of the workshop was held by the Director
of School for Senior Civil Service Oleksandr Saenko.
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