AAC held the Conference of “Amendment to the Provision of Criminal Bribery, Unjustified Gift and Trading in Influence”
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As always, the Ministry of Justice makes anti-corruption a vital part of its policy. In responding to the resolution of the Anti-Corruption Act in the National Judicial Reform Conference, the Ministry of Justice instructed the Agency Against Corruption (AAC) to establish the “AAC Anti-Corruption Law Amendment Advocacy Unit” to complete the system of anti-corruption and pursuit judicial reform as professed. Counselor Chen Rai-Jen of the Ministry of Justice called for a number of roundtable meetings with scholars and experts for discussion and study on the issue, and has completed the draft work of important laws at the preliminary stage like the “Crime of Influecne Trading”, “condition for amendment to the crime of bribery with introduction of the crime of unjustified gift to civil servants”. The Ministry of Justice has called for a press conference on 24 May 2018 to inform the whole country.
The AAC held the “Conference on Amendments to the Laws of Criminal Bribery, Unjustified Gift and Trading in Influence” on 3 July 2018. Scholars and experts were invited to explain the conditions for substantiating the proposals for amendments to topics of “Legislative reform in offering/accepting bribes – Article 121 and Article 122 of the Criminal Code”, “Introduction of unjustified gifts– Article 122-1 of the Criminal Code”, and “Criminal influence trading – Article 134-1”.
The AAC has invited all courts under the Judicial Yuan, the Ministry of Justice and all subordinated prosecutor offices, the judicial police, Taiwan Bar Association, Taipei Bar Association, the National Civil Servants Association of Taiwan, the Judicial Reform Foundation, the colleges of law of all universities, other organizations and schools to participate in the conference for hearing the voices from the judiciary, prosecution, the legal defense, and academics on their views on the reforms and the feasibility of enactment and enforcement.