FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION: THE LITHUANIAN WAY

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FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION THE LITHUANIAN WAY
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CONTENTS

• Factors
• Decision
• Challenges
• Dilemmas
• Priorities

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FACTORS
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FACTORS

• External
• globalisation
• fall of the Berlin Wall
• diffusion East West
• Internal
• freedom
• procedures
• mentality
• integration into the EU, NATO

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CONCLUSIONS

• Corruption becomes a global concern
• Young democracies favourable conditions for
  corruption
• Old democracies unprepared for a new
  challenge
• Compatibility of the young and the old a
  generation gap
• Untraditional thinking
• Pro-active systems, quickly responding to
  changes and changing the environment for their
  own benefit

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DECISION
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ANTI-CORRUPTION SYSTEM
C O R R U P T I O N
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
PREVENTION
EDUCATION
STT
GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT
PARLIAMENT
GENERAL PUBLIC
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Special Investigation Service (STT)

• Independent body
• Independent investigations
• Three equally important pillars
• criminal prosecution
• prevention
• education
• Co-ordinating body

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DIRECTIONS
Direction Target Tool Result Objective
Criminal prosecution Consequences Effective capacities Today Quick, thorough and lawful detection of corruption crimes
Prevention Causes Perfect systems and procedures Long-term (oriented towards tomorrow) In cooperation with other bodies in public and private sector, detection and elimination of pre-conditions of corruption
Education Causes of causes High moral standards Forever Development of overall intolerance towards corruption
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CO-ORDINATION
Sectors
STT
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
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STT STRUCTURE
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CHALLENGES
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CHALLENGES

• Political will
• Strategy
• Legal framework
• Structure
• Personnel
• Resources
• Public support
• Unrealistic goals and expectations

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DILEMMAS
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DILEMMAS

• Perception or reality?
• Public or shadow administration?
• Bad or good?
• Tactical stability or strategic instability?

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Perception or reality?
Action
Perception
Actual level of corruption
The level of corruption posing no danger to the
state
Time
Suspension
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Public or Shadow Administration?

• Bribes
• help solve problems
• I gave them and will continue to give
• great effectiveness
• future generation
• Effective system of shadow administration
• uses public resources
• unbound by legislation
• rapid
• service-orientated (helping a person)
• Competition the most effective wins

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Good or Evil?

• mentality of transitional period
• statistical citizen
• distorted system of values
• alienation of the state and citizen

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Tactical Stability or Strategic Instability?

• REALITY CATALYSTS PERCEPTION
• REALITY
• HUGE CORRUPTION
• INEFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION
• CATALISTS
• MENTALITY
• MASS MEDIA
• OUTCOME
• BAD STATE CORRUPT STATE
• DISTRUST OF THE MAIN STATE INSTITUTIONS
• HIGH CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX

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Tactical Stability or Strategic Instability?

• CONSEQUENCES
• ACTION INFLUENCES BY PERCEPTION
• SYSTEM IS UNSTABLE
• SMALL FINANCIAL OR CONCEPTUAL INJECTION INTO
  ELECTIONS MAY FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE DEPLOYMENT OF
  POLITICAL FORCES
• INCREASING THE RISK OF STATE CAPTURE

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PRIORITIES
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PRIORITIES

• Political corruption
• Administrative corruption
• Increasing liability
• Education
• Courts
• EU Anti-Corruption Network

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POLITICAL CORRUPTION

• Political party funding ideas or money?
• Legally-based influence lobbying or influence?
• Codes of conduct for politicians conduct or
  ethics?

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ADMINISTRATIVE CORRUPTION

• Transparent and effective procedures
• collision citizen vs state
• inventory of procedures
• audit
• Anti-corruption review of legislation
• One-stop-shop principle
• minimum information
• minimum time period
• minimum price
• clear and strict consequences

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INCREASING LIABILITY

• Criminal liability
• Civil liability
• Administrative liability
• Codes of conduct
• Moral values

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CRIMINAL LIABILITY

• Necessary but insufficient tool
• Specific corruption investigation tools
• effective intelligence
• whistleblower/informant
• criminal conduct simulation model
• technical means
• databases

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CIVIL LIABILITY

• Assets recovery system
• criminal liability confiscation
• civil liability recovery
• tax liability taxes
• Living within ones means
• Target property or a person?
• Burden of Proof citizen or a state?

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EDUCATION

• Corruption is a threat
• Civic society

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COURTS

• A problem of transitional period
• Damaged courts toothless law enforcement
• Courts or investigators?

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EU EFFORTS

• Two processes two networks
• anti-corruption
• assets recovery
• Effective tools
• to curb global corruption
• to strengthen national bodies
• to reduce dependency on local authorities

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CONCLUSIONS
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CONCLUSIONS