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Ending corruption at all levels was the key objective put in place by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and United National Party joint government during their election campaigns in 2015. [ 21 ] Sirisena promised to take necessary action against the Rajapaksas regarding the corrupt practices while Mahinda Rajapaksa served as the President of Sri Lanka.
Papua New Guinea is below the satisfactory levels set by the United Nations Convention against Corruption , according to a report submitted by Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) in 2011. TIPNG’s report found that in many cases, anti-corruption bodies in PNG were restricted by shortcomings in financial resources. [6]
The report stated that the level of corruption in Papua New Guinea had "migrated from a sporadic to a systematic and now an institutionalised form of corruption", describing Papua New Guinea as a "mobtocracy". [7] [31] According to Task Force Sweep, PGK52 million has been recovered, and hopes to recover almost double that figure by the end of 2012.
The Financial Crimes Investigation Division was formed on 26 February 2015 under the purview of Sri Lanka Police Service. FCID is directly responsible in handling the investigations on the corruption charges against the Rajapaksa Administration and the public service that involved in large-scale corruption which led to destabilize the Government revenue.
The bribery commission also filed a case against him for failing to declare assets and liabilities from 2010 to 2014. [4] In January 2022 Johnston Fernando was acquitted from three cases filed against him by the bribery commission of Sri Lanka for allegedly employing CWE employees in electoral activities costing the state Rs. 40 million.
He once was an advisor and consultant to the Ministry of Finance & Planning and Plan Implementation, and thereafter as Chairman of Public Enterprises Reform Commission and Chairman & Director of Private Sector Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd. and Hotel Developers (Lanka) Ltd. under the nomination of Sri Lankan President Chandrika ...
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
Corruption is prevalent in Sri Lanka. Cited as "one of the most corrupt nations in the world" by Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe of the Lanka Standard, [15] there have been instances in which law enforcers take bribes from offenders who wish to have their offences waived. The government has made an effort to curb corruption in the country and ...