AMMAN— The
President of the Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission Mohanad Hijazi spoke
at a seminar organized by the Amman Group for Future Dialogues on Saturday,
saying the Government's Royal Message of June 2005 to establish an independent anti-corruption
commission affirmed His Majesty King Abdullah’s interest in national
reform.
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He added that successive
governments did not fail to emphasize the implementation of legislation and
procedures that emphasize the prosecution of those found guilty of corruption.
His Majesty had set up
a Royal commission at the end of 2012 to promote integrity, whose task was to
review legislation, examine the reality of regulatory bodies, and identify
their shortcomings.
The King's colloquial
papers, especially the sixth paper on the rule of law as the basis of the civil
state, where His Majesty has considered the rule of law to be the pillar of the
modern civil state, stressed the need to apply standards of integrity and the
rules of law as fundamental pillars of prudent governance in order to achieve
justice, equality, respect for human rights, and the fight against mediocrity
and patronage.
The papers stated that
the failure to apply these standards weakens state institutions and undermines
citizens' confidence in them.
The head of board of
directors added that the fight against corruption has been rooted the
Hashemite’s policy approach since the Jordanian Constitution was created in
1952.
He also said that the
fight against corruption accompanied the economic movement in the early 1990s
and the development of economic and social life in the Kingdom has led to the
existence of legislation on crimes against the economy.
He then responded to questions
about the work of the commission and the mechanisms for dealing with corruption
cases. He commended the cooperation of the judiciary with the commission and
the activation of procedures that had helped to speed up the processing of
cases, especially after the Judicial Council allocated three bodies to
corruption cases and increased the number of prosecutors for corruption cases to
eight.
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