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PARAGUAY RECEIVES ON-SITE VISIT OF THE OAS
ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM (MESICIC)
A Commission of the OAS
Anticorruption Mechanism (Mechanism for Follow-Up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption – MESICIC) visited Paraguay, from September
30 – October 2, 2015, as part of the review process of
the Fifth Round of said Mechanism, carried out in
accordance with the Methodology adopted
by consensus by its Member States. The Commission was composed of the
Director of the Legal Division of the General Direction
of Government Ethics and Integrity (Dirección
General de Ética e Integridad Gubernamental
- DIGEIG) of the Dominican Republic, Rafael
Alberto Basora; and the Chief Executive Officer of the
State Asset Recovery Agency of Guyana, Aubrey Heath-Retemyer.
These officials were supported by the General
Secretariat of the OAS in the visit, represented by the
Senior Legal Officer of the Technical Secretariat of the
MESICIC, Marta Laura Martínez. During the three days of work, the
members of the Commission met with representatives of
the Public Prosecution Service (Ministerio
Público), the Civil Service Secretariat (Secretaría
de la Función Pública), the Office of the
Comptroller General of the Republic, the National
Directory of Public Procurement (Dirección
Nacional de ContratacionesPúblicas)
, the Office of the Attorney General (Procuraduría
General de la República), and the Judiciary, in
order to obtain objective and complete information and
reveal potential difficulties in the implementation of
the Inter-American Convention. The meetings focused on issues
related to systems for government hiring, training and
remuneration; the government systems for the procurement
of goods and services; and systems for protecting those
who report acts of corruption and the criminalization of
such acts of corruption under Paraguayan law. The Commission also had the
opportunity to meet with civil society organizations,
private sector organizations, and professional
associations. The results of this visit forms
part of the review process that is currently being
carried out by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC,
and which will conclude with the adoption of the
Paraguay country
report by the Committee at its next plenary meeting to
be held in March 2016, in Washington DC at OAS
Headquarters. For more information on the
MESICIC, please visit the Anti-Corruption Portal of the
Americas at www.oas.org/juridico/english/fightcur.html
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Edition N° 233 - Oct. 2015
The Mechanism For Follow-up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to
support the development of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption through
cooperation between States Parties.
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