Resident US advisor here to assist CIABOC: Sri Lanka categorized among the worst
The US State Department Special Project has made provision for a Resident Legal Advisor in Colombo to provide anti-corruption and asset recovery training and also support the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (CIABOC).
The State Department has revealed the decision in a statement headlined The Global Forum on Asset Recovery: Assistance for Combatting Corruption in Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Ukraine posted its website, on the eve of International Anti-Corruption Day.
The announcement was made while a high level Attorney General’s Department team was
in Washington to participate in the inaugural Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) co-hosted by the US and the United Kingdom.
During Barak Obama’s presidency, then Secretary of State John Kerry announced in Colombo his country’s readiness to help track down stolen money. The incumbent government has repeatedly accused former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of having stashed away as much as 18.5 bn USD in foreign accounts.
The State Department has said that since 2016 financial year, the US provided assistance for anti-corruption efforts in Sri Lanka to improve the functioning of Sri Lanka’s legal system and civil society, and to enhance good governance.
In addition, programmes included the provision of a Resident Legal Advisor.
Although the exact amount allocated for Sri Lanka hasn’t been revealed, the State Department says that since fiscal year 2016, the State Department and US Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent USD 115 mn annually to a wide range of foreign assistance efforts to counter corruption, including capacity building of foreign governments to create stronger laws and more effective institutions; investigate, prosecute, and secure convictions for corruption offences; and put in place measures to prevent corruption, foster oversight, and promote government integrity and transparency.
“US support of global efforts to recover stolen assets and ensure corrupt actors cannot benefit from their ill-gotten gains is an important part of this work.”
The United States has also provided significant technical assistance to
Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Ukraine to strengthen anti-corruption and asset recovery efforts.
(Source: The Island)
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This is a FLAGRANT VIOLATION of INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
The US Govt should be told that the Suddha Adviser is not required. Where is Marapona? (our FM).
We are a Sinhala Buddhist Nation and corruption is a way of life according to our governing philosophy.
We are writing a new Constitution where corruption will be legalised.
This frickin Suddha should be told to go away and leave us in peace.
If there is no corruption, where will all the public servants get money to educate kids in international schools? Where will they find money to pay for chauffeur driven cars to take wives to posh shopping centres? How will the Cops finance their homes?
How will the political parties finance campaigns to send the opposition parties to the back bench?
Where will former leaders find money to engage lawyers to obtain Court orders to prevent arrest?
Mate, the Suddha Adviser, we are a Sinhala Buddhist nation, mate, leave us in peace.
I know Ms. Niranjala is trolling. Well, a question. Take the bond scam. Who were involved in this were Sinhala Buddhists?
Brother Amarakoon,
The Sinhala Buddhist leadership is so dumb that they are reliant on corrupt individuals within the minorities for analytical and thinking skills to implement mega scale corruption.
Eg’s are: Bondy Mahendram and his SIL, Aloysius Mudalali, Killy Maharaj and Ajit Cabraal.
The latest is a dumb ship being bought for the Navy by the Lilly White Gamarala for US$130m by his SIL and Killy.
Shame on all mate.