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Anti-Corruption Forum. Nine government organizations from eight countries shared information and experiences and discuss cooperation and exchanges on corruption prevention and anti-corruption policies at the 7th Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) Forum held on September 2 and 3, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.
Enacted on 17 June 1960, the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) is the primary anti-corruption law in Singapore. The following are provided for under the PCA: [6] Powers for the CPIB to investigate bribery in all forms, both monetary and non-monetary in nature, and in both the public and private sectors;
For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among the countries of the Asia Pacific region [a] was 84—also held by Singapore in the region. [5] According to Transparency International's 2015 "Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index" the highest corruption risk area is "Operations" followed by "Finance". [6]
Location of Singapore Singapore is a sovereign island country in maritime Southeast Asia. A global city, it has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade and more recently as a financial hub as well. Its economy is known as the most freest, most innovative, most competitive, most dynamic and most business-friendly in the world by various multinational ...
In September 2013, a subsidiary of the company, ship support contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), became the central public focus of an ongoing investigation into a corruption scandal within the US Navy. [3] [4] [5] In 2010, Navy officials became suspicious that some of the bills submitted by the GDMA company from Thailand were padded. [6]
In May 2020, Summit Group received US$140 million from Clifford Capital Pte Ltd and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation for the Summit Gazipur II Power Plant. [30] Summit established the Hamiduzzaman Sculpture Park in its Gazipur powerplant. [31] In 2022, the chairman of Summit, Aziz Khan, was the 42nd richest man in Singapore. [32]
The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is a FATF-style regional inter-governmental (international) body, the members of which are committed to effectively implementing the international standards against money laundering (Anti–money laundering or AML), combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The National Supervisory Commission is the highest supervisory and anti-corruption authority of the People's Republic of China. Formed in 2018 by an amendment to the Constitution , the Commission holds the same constitutional status as that of the State Council , of the Supreme People's Court , and of the Supreme People's Procuratorate .