Senior anti-corruption officials are working on a handbook on the best practices and strategies in prosecuting corruption cases and preventing or putting a stop to financial crimes.
Among the most common financial crimes are fraud, electronic crime and terrorist financing, said Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang, who is also this year’s chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Network of Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (ACT-NET).
Financial crimes can adversely impact economic stability and have “increasingly become a clear and alarming global concern,” he added.
Among the APEC meetings that opened yesterday was a workshop on designing the best models in prosecuting corruption and financial crimes based on the “effective use of financial fraud tracking techniques and investigative intelligence.”
Carandang said the workshop provides the participants “timely, relevant and experience-based information skills and motivation needed to detect, put a stop to, and take legal action against financial crimes.”
Pander Pothisiri, National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand (NACC) commissioner, said the workshop was the third and final workshop, after San Diego, Chile in June 2013, and Pattaya, Thailand in September 2014.