WNN recently attended the 20th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Washington, D.C. This year, the conference’s theme was “Uprooting Corruption, Defending Democratic Values.” In a panel coordinated by the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. State Department, a group of experts discussed sanctions and visa restrictions as a tool for fighting corruption.
The panel featured Jonathan Bhalla, Senior Governance Adviser at the Illicit Finance and Anti-Corruption Department of the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Christine Cline, the Division Chief of the U.S. Department of State/Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Richard Nephew, Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption at the U.S. State Department, Jonathan Dixon, the Section Chief for Global Magnitsky of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Kush Amin, Legal Specialist/Advisor of Transparency International Secretariat.
The discussion’s name was “Deterring and Promoting Accountability for Corrupt Actors through Sanctions and Visa Restrictions.” Thus, the experts talked about using restrictions as tools for fighting corruption all over the world. Some participants talked about how there has been positive reception of these tactics from some members of the public and some governments that are committed to transparency. Panelists talked about how they’ve seen resignations and some criminal investigations come out of visa restrictions.
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