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The Corporación Latinoamericana para el Desarrollo (CLD), Transparency International’s national chapter in Ecuador, presented a reform project of the Ecuadorian Criminal Code to the Ministry of Finance in the framework of its Inter-American Convention against Corruption (IACAC) implementation monitoring. |
The aim is to ensure that all of the crimes that the Convention anticipates, detects and sanctions are included in the laws of the country, to strengthen the Ecuadorian judicial system and avoid impunity.
The text of the reform project includes offences like bribery, unlawful enrichment, illegal seizure/appropriation of goods, as well as access to privileged information for the benefit of a political position. It also includes the actions of the law concerning public officials, which were not considered previously in the legal body. The next step is the final approval by the highest authority in the Ministry of Finance, so that the law can be discussed in the National Congress.
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