2018 “Reform in Anti-Corruption Implementation Program”
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The Agency Against Corruption (AAC) launched the “Reform in Anti-Corruption Implementation Program” (hereinafter referred to as “This Program”). Through the inspection of the major weakness of the entities that could easily fall prey to malfeasance and corruption, and also the integrity assessment of the entities, the patterns of corruption and malfeasance over the years, AAC sorted out the items most vulnerable to corruption for special investigation. AAC kicked off this program in 5 phases, namely, “intelligence gathering”, “education and training”, “special investigation”, “anti-corruption measures”, and “media marketing”. This program seeks to guide ethics units to dig out benchmarking cases of corruption in organized, structural form with involvement of senior public officials in systematic and schematic manner. Anti-corruption measures will be mapped out in afterward to reduce the risk of exposure of business vulnerable to malfeasance and corruption and prevent the recurrence of the incidents.
There were 41 Government Ethics Units among the competent authorities including the Department of Civil Service Ethics of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Eleven items of business of high risk to corruption were sorted out from the integration of the 94 reports presented by the ethics units of the competent authorities on special investigation in corruption, including the pipeline engineering (Road-Smoothing Project), funeral and burial service, various forms of subsidies, awards on reporting wrongdoing, construction management, conservation of camp sites, land administration (land renewal planning), water works (dredging), various forms of procurement, supervision of motor vehicles, Taiwan Power Company subsidy for development of power generation (subsidy of working capital for the encouragement of power generation development). These constituted the theme of a cross-function special program of the year under tracking. The symposium of the final review of the program was held in March 2018.
For the proper audit of the implementation of the pipeline engineering (Road-Smoothing Project), AAC invited the Government Ethics Units under the governments at the city/county level and the Department of Civil Service Ethics of state-owned enterprises under the Ministry of Economic Affairs on June 8 2018 for the “Road-Smoothing Project Meeting”. Chief Engineer Wang Ya-Ho of the Tainan Public Works Bureau was invited to deliver a speech on “Sharing the Experience of Tainan City Government in the pursuit of Road-Smoothing Project” in the meeting. He explained the key audit matters so that relevant enforcement units could focus on the audit in proper means.