Fighting corruption could be not only the state and the public concern. Activists rally to support president's attack on corruption, Moscow July 24, 2008. The slogans read: "Russia without Corruption!" "STOP Bribetaking!"
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Profession Ban Elaborated for Bureaucrats
The Anti-Corruption Council approved yesterday a package of four bills that will lay the legal foundation for the counter-corruption plan of Dmitry Medvedev. The bureaucrats and members of their families will have to declare not only the revenues but also the property. The bureaucrats, who have taken discharge, will need a special permit should they want to be employed in a company under the profile profession. The State Duma will have the bills in the nearest future.
President Dmitry Medvedev inked the Act on Establishing Anti-Corruption Council May 19, and President’s Administration head Sergei Naryshkin was committed to elaborate a counter-corruption bill. Naryshkin submitted an interim draft June 26.
Naryshkin specified after yesterday’s sitting of the Anti-Corruption Council that the counter-corruption package comprises four documents. They are the Counter-Corruption Bill that spells out the government's policy in part of opposing corrupt practices, amendments to the Constitutional Act on the government and two bills for amending 25 federal laws, including the Code of Criminal procedure and the Act on Operational Search Action.
One of the key provisions of the package is the two-year ban on employment of a former bureaucrat with a company, with which he/she has had ties during the government service. Nowadays, ex-bureaucrats frequently find new offices in the business that they have supervised in time of the civil service.
But the employment ban isn’t as tough as it had been before the yesterday’s meeting of the Council. It was decided that the moratorium could be lifted should the former state employer agree to it.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 01, 2008
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