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Mozambique: Regulator preparing anti-corruption plan for civil service
9:25 CAT | 29 Aug 2022
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Mozambique’s public administration regulator (IGAP) on Friday announced the development of a national strategy for the prevention and fight against corruption.
“What we are doing at the moment is the national strategy. Our focus is to combat all deviant behaviour, everything that has to do with the tendency of public servants to commit fraud,” said the Director General of IGAP, Augusto Mangove, during the opening of the meeting of the institution’s coordinating council in Maputo today.
The document, which is expected to be completed and released by December, will be based on the strategy for the reform and development of public administration (ERDAP), approved by the Mozambican government in 2012.
“In general, we can say that the fight against corruption in Mozambique is having the desired effects […] There is internal control work, there is a screening that is being done in public institutions,” he said.
The most recent data on the impact of corruption in Mozambique released by the attorney general’s office indicated that the crime of embezzlement damaged the Mozambican state by over 7.9 million euros in 2020.
The amount corresponding to the embezzlement of state funds in 2020 – typified as embezzlement – represents an increase when compared to the previous year, when the amount resulting from the illicit appropriation of public resources was just over 7.7 million euros.
Source: Lusa
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