It was reported in the news yesterday, 25th September, 2020 in the New Vision Papers that activists called for amendment of Anti-corruption Act, 2009 to inter alia;
Adopt a non-conviction based asset recovery regime which they argue imposes an unrealistic and unreasonably high degree of proof on the prosecution, making it difficult to recover property obtained using proceeds of corruption, and hence recovery should be permitted where the prosecution is able to prove the likelihood that the assets in question were acquired using proceeds of corruption, as various times asserts acquired through corruption are identified but are disposed-off through the trial process.
Increase the amount of fines imposed under the Act in order to make corruption less appealing and ensure sufficient deterrence of the law; with the fines imposed raging from twice to about ten times value of the corruption benefit obtained.
What are your thoughts on this?
It was reported in the news yesterday, 25th September, 2020 in the New Vision Papers that activists called for amendment of Anti-corruption Act, 2009 to inter alia;
1. Adopt a non-conviction based asset recovery regime which they argue imposes an unrealistic and unreasonably high degree of proof on the prosecution, making it difficult to recover property obtained using proceeds of corruption, and hence recovery should be permitted where the prosecution is able to prove the likelihood that the assets in question were acquired using proceeds of corruption, as various times asserts acquired through corruption are identified but are disposed-off through the trial process.
2. Increase the amount of fines imposed under the Act in order to make corruption less appealing and ensure sufficient deterrence of the law; with the fines imposed raging from twice to about ten times value of the corruption benefit obtained.
What are your thoughts on this?
edited Sep 25 '20 at 11:44 pm
