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VIRTUAL FORUM 2021
Leading through the Crisis: Integrity and Anti-Corruption for a Resilient Recovery
23-25 March 2021
The Forum explored the new integrity risks, challenges and opportunities that have arisen
in the COVID-19 context, as well as identified innovative solutions required to govern and
conduct business with integrity, including with respect to responsible business conduct
(RBC) standards, and tackle corruption in times of crisis. The Forum invited governments,
business leaders, policy makers, anti-corruption experts and practitioners, civil society
representatives and academics to focus on restoring trust and integrity in and beyond the
current crisis, in building a more resilient and more ethical future.
Watch the recordings of the Forum sessions and learn more about the OECD’s work on anti-
corruption & intgerity at https://oecd-events.org/gacif2021.
GLOBAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIVE
151 countries 1/2 government virtual conference,
over 200 expert speakers 1/4 business digital networking,
over 6000 registered 1/4 civil society active participation
participants 61 cross-cutting sessions from all around the
globe
Keynote addresses & opening plenary:
Young leaders building back with integrity
At the opening session of the 2021 Forum, leaders from government, business and civil society
shared their vision for “building back with integrity” in the pandemic response and called for stronger
action to promote integrity as a guiding principle in shaping the post-COVID economy and society.
Left to right, from top: Elsa Pilichowski, Director, OECD Directorate for Public Governance, moderated the keynote
addresses. Addresses by: Ángel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General; Sebastián Piñera, President, Republic of Chile;
John Penrose, Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Champion, United Kingdom; Mária Kolíková, Minister of Justice,
Slovak Republic; Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and CEO, L’Oréal; Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister, Kingdom of
Thailand; Lê Minh Khái, Government Inspector-General, Viet Nam; Brad Smith, President, Microsoft
The opening panel of young leaders addressed critical challenges in the interplay between integrity
and green growth, governance and social justice, and debated the role of young people in shaping a
fairer political system, a more equitable business climate, and more resilient community.
Left to right, from top: Ángel
Gurría, OECD Secretary-General,
moderated the panel of young
leaders.
Speakers:
Virginijus Sinkevičius, European
Commissioner for Environment,
Oceans and Fisheries, European
Commission;
Serena Ibrahim, Sustainability
Consultant, Founder, Youth Against
“Integrity is the best long-term
Corruption;
investment.” Rhoden Monrose, Founder &
CEO, CariClub
Jean-Paul Agon, CEO, L’Oréal
Consensus emerged that the rapid rollout of emergency measures should not compromise continued
attention to integrity, accountability and transparency in policymaking, and that integrity is a long term
investment, leading towards more equality, inclusiveness and sustainability. As governments strive to
preserve and strengthen public trust and “build back better”, they may benefit from following the UK’s
example of an Anti-Corruption Champion to drive the anti-corruption agenda.
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Integrity in practice: Launch of the OECD Public Integrity Toolkit
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the importance website that complements the OECD
of the development and use of digital Recommendations on Public Integrity and
technologies. Data and digital tools are essential provides guidance to policy makers and
to enhance and support public integrity policies. inspiration to develop own tools.
This discussion launched the OECD Public Developed and tested by OECD governments
Integrity Toolkit. and selected partners, the Toolkit collects digital
Together with the OECD Public Integrity tools and resources to help policy makers
Handbook, the OECD Public Integrity Maturity and practitioners manage daily governance
challenges. The session showcased four of its
Models, and the forthcoming OECD Public
most innovative tools.
Integrity Indicators, the online Toolkit is a living
Left to right, from top: Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of Division, Public Sector Integrity, OECD;
Laura Delair, Deputy Head of the Public Relations Division, The High Authority for Transparency in Public Life,
France; Neves Otavio, Corregedor-Geral, Director for Transparency and Civic Engagement for Government
Oversight; Daniel Ortega Nieto, Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank; Dion Hardika Sumarto, Group Head
at the Directorate of Gratuity and Public Services, Corruption Eradication Commission, Indonesia; Anna Mariana,
Gratuity Examiner at the Directorate of Gratuity and Public Services, Corruption Eradication Commission, Indonesia
• Mrs Laura Delair of the High Authority for • Mr Dion Hardika Sumarto and Ms
Transparency in Public Life (HATVP), France, Anna Mariana of the Corruption Eradication
presented an artificial intelligence algorithm used Commission (KPK), Indonesia, presented the
for the interpretation of open ended text entered “Jaga” application, which educates and provides
by lobbyist to facilitate compliance through knowledge about COVID-19 (and other) social
a user-friendly and error-tolerant interface aid available for citizens as well as an easy to
between lobbyists and the HATVP. use complaint mechanism. The Jaga complaint
• Mr Otávio Castro Neves of the Office of the mechanism was able to achieve the highest
Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU), presented respond rate of all existing complaint channels
various tools, including cartoons, videos, games currently available.
and interactive tools, to educate children from OECD Public Integrity Toolkit
different ages in values, developed together with
The Toolkit will start growing
the Ministry of Education.
with new tools, submitted
• Mr Daniel Ortega Nieto of the World Bank, by you, the users. We invite
presented an innovative tool which is currently everybody to share digital
being developed. It provides an interface to tools facilitating integrity
use artificial intelligence in order to detect over policies.
200 red flags in existing public procurement Visit
contracts, using publicly available data sources.
oe.cd/integritytoolkit
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A more transparent water governance for a stronger recovery
The third session of the 2021 Forum focused on access to quality water services for 3 billion
the importance of integrity and transparency of people lacking basic handwashing facilities.
water governance to build back better. As stated Amongst others, they recognised the role of
in the OECD Principles on water governance, cities and civil society organisations in ensuring
and in particular by Principle 9 integrity and access to water to vulnerable groups. Water
transparency practices should be mainstreamed utilities will also have to rethink their business
across water policies, water institutions and models towards a hybrid infrastructure model
water governance frameworks for greater that promotes a combination of grey/green and
accountability and trust in decision-making. centralised/decentralised infrastructure, as they
suffered from a loss of revenue of around 40%
All speakers highlighted that COVID-19
since the beginning of the pandemic.
acted as a magnifying glass on water related
challenges, especially in terms of adequate
Left to right, from top: Oriana Romano, Head of Unit, Water Governance and Circular Economy, Centre for
Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD; Elizabeth Moses, Environmental Rights and Justice Associate
II, Environmental Democracy Practice, World Resources Institute; John Dini, Research Manager: Water Governance,
Water Research Commission, South Africa; Barbara Schreiner, Executive Director, Water Integrity Network;
Tom Panella, Director for Environement, Natural Resources and Agriculture in the East Asia Department, Asian
Development Bank; Donal O’Leary, Senior Advisor, Transparency International; Sareen Malik, Executive Secretary,
African Civil Society Network on Water
Panellists also reflected on the main tools to • carry out sector reviews and strategic
improve transparency and integrity to enhance financial planning to assess short-, medium-, and
water security and recommended to: long-term investment and operational needs;
• provide coordinated responses across • promote multi-stakeholder dialogues and
levels of government, as demonstrated in the partnerships to foster greater accountability and
enhance citizen’s participation in water policy-
recent OECD report on Water Governance in
making and implementation;
Cape Town, South Africa;
• strengthen monitoring and evaluation
• prioritise transparent budgeting as well as
mechanisms for public procurement and
governance financing to help water institutions
promote civil society reporting tools (such as
meet their mandates;
the Asivikelane mobile phone-based reporting
system for service delivery in informal settlements
in South Africa).
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Introducing “Frequently Asked Questions: How to address bribery and
corruption risks in mineral supply chains”
This session featured the launch of a new However, the sector is prone to corruption risks.
tool from the OECD Centre for Responsible Corruption has a wide range of corrosive effects,
Business Conduct on How to Address depriving countries of revenues, stifling economic
Corruption and Bribery Risks in Mineral Supply growth, distorting markets, undermining the
rule of law, and enabling criminal networks and
Chains. The extractives sector has the potential
terrorism. This paper provides practical answers
to sustain livelihoods, foster local development
to frequently asked questions on how companies
through job creation and skills development,
can identify, prevent, mitigate and report on risks
bring much needed tax revenue, and increase
of contributing to bribery and corruption through
investment, particularly in conflict-affected and
their mineral sourcing.
high-risk areas.
Left to right, from top: Rashad
Abelson, Legal Expert,
Responsible Business Conduct,
OECD; Alexandra Gillies, Advisor,
Natural Resource Governance
Institute; Luca Maiotti, Policy
Analyst, Responsible Business
Conduct, OECD; Andrew Irvine,
Legal and Corporate Engagement
Director, Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative
Illicit Financial Flows, Oil Commodity Trading and Development
Commodity trading is a key facilitator of global arrangements and third-party intermediaries.
trade, generating over 1 trillion US dollars for Panellists underlined that curbing IFFs in the sector
producer countries over the last two decades. is high on the agenda, at company and country
Yet the sector is also highly prone to corruption levels, with measures focusing on enhanced
and illicit financial flows (IFFs) with detrimental transparency, robust due diligence procedures,
impact on domestic resource mobilisation. and development of industry benchmarks.
Through a lively discussion, representatives of However, information and action gaps remain,
industry, producer countries and international and OECD’s forthcoming publications on IFFs
organisations highlighted the complex world and oil commodity trading were applauded as
of oil commodity trading, unpacking IFF risks important contribution in highlighting how each
generated in the sector, including around buyer actor plays an important role in ensuring sector
selection, use of complex financial arrangements integrity going forward.
Left to right, from top: Gareth
Austin, Head of Compliance,
Glencore Energy UK Ltd;
Catherine Anderson, Team
Leader, OECD Development
Co-operation Directorate; Inês
Schjølberg Marques,
Policy Director, Extractive Industries
Transparency Initative; Dennis
Baidoo, Policy Director, Ghana
National Petroleum Corporation
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Reporting after the crisis: What has changed, what remains the same, and
what should be improved?
A comprehensive whistleblower protection in certain sectors during the pandemic,
legislation is an essential building block to whistleblowers including those from marginalised
combating corruption and promoting integrity groups remain extremely vulnerable to retaliation.
in times of crisis. However, several panellists Panellists finally expressed the hope that the
stressed that protections can only be fully COVID-19 context will not slow down further
effective if the enforcement ecosystem in which progress in recent legislative efforts to protect
they are integrated supports such effectiveness. whistleblowers but rather underscore the
They also highlighted the importance of importance of the role of whistleblowers in
promoting an open organisational culture across boosting efforts to slow the disease and support
the public and private sectors, which inspires the post-crisis recovery. The discussion of the
confidence and empowers whistleblowers to session will feed into the forthcoming OECD policy
report misconduct. The discussion also showed response paper on protecting whistleblowers
that while reports about misconduct have during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
increased exponentially
Left to right, from top: Jay Brainard, Federal
Security Director for the State of Kansas,
Whistleblower, U.S. Transportation Security
Administration; Wim Vandekerckhove,
Professor of Business Ethics, University of
Greenwich; Nick Aiossa, Deputy Director and
Head of Policy and Advocacy, Transparency
International EU; Mathilde Mesnard, Deputy
Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs,
OECD; Samantha Feinstein, Staff Attorney
and Deputy Director, International Programme,
Government Accountability Project; Louise
Portas, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Officer with the Corruption and Economic Crime
Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC)
Gender mainstreaming in anti-corruption agencies of APEC member
economies
The session gathered three women from different Studies also reveal that women suffer the
sectors and backgrounds to discuss the impact effects of corruption more than men, especially
that women participation could have or is if we consider the indirect effects of corruption
actually having in the fight against corruption. on access to basic services and economic
Early research showed that levels of women’s opportunity. Recent data from Transparency
participation in decision-making co-relate with International shows that women are also
lower levels of corruption. More resent research, disproportionately vulnerable to a pernicious
however, shows that the co-relation between gendered form of corruption- sexual extortion,
levels of corruption and women’s participation sextortion or sexual exploitation, where sex is the
is tenuous and only holds true in representative currency in a bribery exchange.
democracies with strong rule of law and a firm
commitment to women’s rights evidenced by
women-friendly policies.
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The speakers discussed the results from the Certain conditions are necessary for women in
New Zealand Serious Fraud Office regarding the power to have a positive impact. For example,
representation of women in the anticorruption their participation should be meaningful and
offices, with a focus on APEC (Asia-Pacific not merely tokenistic, and gender should be
Economic Cooperation) economies, compared mainstreamed in both policy and practice.
with the percentage of women in compliance So, including women in decision-making is no
roles in the private sector. Having more women panacea for controlling corruption and their
in public office could contribute to help reducing participation should be pursued as an inherently
the practices mentioned before, although there laudable goal based on dignity, equality and
are no guarantees that change will result simply human rights, and not instrumentalized merely
by having more women in power. as an anti-corruption tool.
Left to right, from top: Katja
Rangsivek, Prevention Adviser,
Serious Fraud Office, New Zealand;
Monica Kirya, Senior Adviser,
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource
Centre; Mary Shirley, Head of
Culture of Integrity and Compliance
Education,Fresenius Medical Care
North America
Measuring fraud and loss amid a pandemic
This session underscored the need for Success factors pointed out by speakers
governments to improve not only risk included buy-in from entities, resources and
identification, but also risk measurement as capability, access to data, constant dialogue with
a tool for policymakers, management and legislators as well as the use of data analytics and
communication alike. While not an easy task, AI technologies. For those entities just starting
especially during a pandemic, the point was to measure fraud, speakers suggested to take
made that “what gets measured gets done.” an incremental approach which should “start
And for this, there needs to be the will for better small” where there is will from the entity and then
measurement by design moving forward. expand based on the cumulated experience.
Left to right, from top:
Beryl Davis, Director, Financial
Management and Assurance,
U.S. Government Accountability
Office; Mark Button, Professor
of Criminology and Director of the
Centre for Counter Fraud Studies
at the Institute of Criminal Justice
Studies, University of Portsmouth,
U.K.; Charlotte Arwidi, Head of
Anti-Corruption, Anti-Fraud
Strategy and Analysis, European
Anti-Fraud Office; Mark
Cheeseman, Director,
Government Counter Fraud
Function, U.K. Cabinet Office
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OECD Business Integrity Roundtable (Part One):
Business integrity trends and standards
The Business Integrity Roundtable’s opening Still, much work remains to be done to persuade
session assembled public or private sector companies, especially SMEs, to embrace
participants from six continents to assess business integrity. Governments and businesses
business integrity trends around the world. must explore ways to foster better corporate
Enforcement of anti-corruption laws by OECD governance and decision-making to prevent and
member countries, most notably the United correct any wrongdoing. The panellists agreed
States, has promoted corporate compliance. that the OECD can help promote business
Beyond the OECD, prosecutions in Brazil and integrity: fostering dialogue, promoting OECD
Multilateral Development Bank debarment standards, providing training, and gathering data
regimes have transformed business attitudes in on trends and good practices.
Latin America, Africa and elsewhere.
Left to right, from top: Keynote address by Jeffrey Schlagenhauf, OECD Deputy Secretary-General.
Speakers: Nicola Bonucci, Partner, Paul Hastings; Ariadne Souza, Network Manager Southern Cone, Alliance
for Integrity; Florence Dennis, Division Manager, Integrity and Prevention Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption,
African Development Bank; Carolina Echeverria, Regional Manager Latin America & Coordinator Trainings,
Alliance for Integrity; Willem Punt, Ethics and Compliance Leader, ANZ Bank, Bribery Prevention Network Australia;
David Last, Principal Assistant Chief, FCPA Unit, Department of Justice, USA; Sam Eastwood, Partner,
Mayer Brown; Angela Joo-Hyun Kang, Founder and President, Global Competiveness Empowerment Forum
OECD Business Integrity Roundtable (Part Two):
Catalysing Compliance in the post COVID-19 world
The second part of the roundtable highlighted Encouraged by its member countries and
how the crisis threatened trust and the integrity by the chair of the OECD Working Group on
of the business ecosystem in unprecedented Bribery, the roundtable has provided a strong
ways, and shifted the compliance paradigm and signal to delegates and stakeholders that such
priorities. discussions and engagements with the private
sector can strengthen trust in business and
promote integrity.
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Left to right, from top: Mathilde Mesnard, Deputy Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD; Drago Kos,
Chair, OECD Working Group on Bribery; Samantha Thompson, M&A Corporate Lead, Anglo American; Bahare
Heywood, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Clifford Chance; Gemma Aiolfi, Head of Compliance & Collective
Action, Basel Institute on Governance; Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs, Refinitiv
The OECD with the continued support of the analytics to support the compliance and ethics
Trust in Business Initiative and the Trust in function in organisations. Experts agreed
Business Network (TriBuNe) will take the on the potential of data in helping achieve
key messages from this Business Integrity greater transparency (ie. in procurements
Roundtable and develop a roadmap for 2021 processes and public registries) but also
to bolster business integrity globally and on the need to solve issues relating to data
continue to highlight innovative projects such availability, quality, relevance and comparability.
as Compliance without Borders, a solution for • The development of the broad ESG agenda
public-private cooperation and capacity building and the necessity for an open dialogue to reach
in the area of anti-corruption and compliance. a consensus on this cross-functional topic,
particularly on the harmonization of the social
Discussion leaders had a very rich and interactive and governance criteria. Discussion leaders
conversation where they reflected on compliance agreed on the importance of developing effective
challenges and opportunities related to: metrics and indicators to better understand how
• The interconnectedness of risks materialise.
compliance issues and the need
for a more holistic compliance This discussion also provided overall an
management systems and frameworks. opportunity to reflect on the role of international
organisations in furthering business integrity and
• The innovative use and accelerating
on how they can support the private sector to
uptake of technology and data that will
reinforce the reach and agenda of compliance
automate processes and develop deeper
officers.
Growing state involvement in the business sector: Growing corruption
problems?
This session’s diverse panel spoke of corruption the newly-launched OECD Implementation
risks to be aware of as the state becomes more Guide accompanying the OECD Guidelines on
involved in the business sector through provision Anti-Corruption and Integrity in SOEs that could
of COVID support. Representatives from four help to mitigate these risks. They agreed that
different sectors and continents raised, in it will require action not only from the business
particular, the risks arising from reduced capacity and SOE sector (e.g. fostering board autonomy,
for oversight of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), improving disclosure), but also from the state
increased opacity in reporting by SOEs, sped- owner (e.g. leading by example regarding
up procurement processes and efforts to repeal integrity, professionalising the ownership role)
previous corporate governance reforms. and, importantly, from civil society (e.g. holding
The panellists pointed to specific guidance in state owners and companies to account).
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Left to right, from top: Thokozani Mvelase, Senior
Specialist, Anti-corruption and Fraud Prevention
Unit, Department of Public Enterprises, South Africa;
John Zemko, Regional Director, Latin America & the
Caribbean, Centre for International Private Enterprise;
Hans Christiansen, Senior Economist, OECD;
Sri Murniati, Head of Public Finance Unit, IDEAS
Malaysia, Olyana Gordiyenko, Chair of the Supervisory
Board, Ukreximbank
The OECD Public Integrity Indicators – new measurements for policy makers
and actionable change
This session launched the new OECD Public presented the preliminary results for the first set
Integrity Indicators. This is the first time that of indicators on Quality of Strategic Framework,
OECD member countries agree on standard and panellists discussed the way forward on how
indicators for the preparedness and resilience of the indicators could inspire actionable change.
the public integrity system at the national level, to All agreed that this first-ever comprehensive set
prevent corruption, mismanagement and waste of indicators based on an agreed international
of public funds, and to assess the likelihood of legal instrument, adhering to the same high
detecting and mitigating various corruption risks. statistical standards as other OECD indicators,
Realising that “what gets measured gets and validated by OECD member countries, is a
done” the panel agreed on the need for significant milestone for the integrity and anti-
“better data against corruption”. The session corruption community.
Left to right, from top: Jesper Johnsøn, Senior
Policy Advisor, OECD; Paul Heywood, Sir Francis
Hill Chair of European Politics, Programme Director,
GI-ACE, University of Nottingham, Global Integrity;
Silvia Spaeth, Detective Chief Inspector, German
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and
Community; Mihály Fazekas, Assistant Professor,
Central European University; János Bertók, Deputy
Director, Public Governance Directorate, OECD;
Lioubov Samokhina, Senior Legal Adviser,
GRECO/Council of Europe
10Maintaining checks and controls in international supply chains in times of
COVID-19
This session explored how businesses adapted discussed best practices and potential pitfalls
carrying out checks on their suppliers to help in how companies are now conducting these
ensure integrity and accountability in their supply checks. Speakers pointed out the positive
chains. OECD responsible business conduct increased role CSOs can now play and the
(RBC) standards recommend companies added benefit of their local perspectives, such as
conduct checks on suppliers to identify and incorporating the women’s views and possible
respond to negative impacts, including potential externalities on the mining community when
links to bribery and corruption deeper in their recommending corrective action. Speakers also
supply chain. Given the travel restrictions pointed out some of the benefits of technology to
over the past year, in-person checks have gather and analyse data remotely and in uses for
been significantly limited. During the session, remote capacity building, as well as audits.
industry experts and representatives of on-
the-ground civil society organisations (CSOs)
Left to right, from top:
Benjamin Katz, Policy Analyst,
OECD Centre for Responsible
Business Conduct; Rozemaria
Bala, Secretary of the Board of
Directors, Senior Vice President,
Governance, Risk and Compliance,
SNAM; Mella Frewen, Director
General, FoodDrinkEurope;
Joanne Lebert, Executive
Director, IMPACT; Andrew
Britton, Managing Director, Kumi
Consulting; Lola Adekanye,
Senior Program Officer, Africa,
Centre for International Private
Enterprise; Thom Townsend,
Executive Director, Open
Ownership
De-railing corruption in procurement: Behaviour, data and norms
Behavioural insights is of increasing importance Instead the panel advocated for interventions
to the integrity and anti-corruption agenda. that support intrinsic motivations to act ethically
Whether your perspective is legal, data, digital and enable the institutional and societal context
focused, or economics, the object of study to support these motivations.
remains the same; human behaviour. Is there The panel noted however that changing attitudes
a role therefore for behavioural scientists and and norms is difficult, especially when these are
economists to contribute to current approaches? deeply embedded and leading to anti-social
The panel discussed ways in which behavioral behaviour. What constitutes ‘fair’ in procurement
science has traditionally been addressed, such can also vary globally. The panel concluded
as limiting discretion, diffusing responsibility and that behavioural science provides us with a very
increasing and formalizing controls, suggesting powerful toolbox to design scenarios and build
these could be counterproductive and create experiments that reflect behaviour in the real
more corruption risks. world from which tailored interventions can be
designed.
11Left to right, from top: Catherine Rylance, Global Head of Anti-Corruption, Economic Diplomacy Directorate,
UForeign Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom; Sope Williams-Elegbe, Professor of
Procurement Law; Deputy Director, African Procurement Law Unit; Head, Dept of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law,
Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Alvaro Quintero, Head of the Division of Institutional Integrity Supervision,
Mexican Institute of Social Security; Elizabeth David-Barrett, Director, Centre for the Study of Corruption,
University of Sussex; Laode Syarif, Executive Director of KEMITRAAN and Senior Lecturer at Hasanuddin University,
Law School; Thorsten Chmura, Professor for Behavioural Economics, Nottingham Trent University; Khrystyna
Zelinska, Innovation Projects Program Manager, Transparency International Ukraine
Ending the shell game: Cracking down on the professionals who enable tax
and white collar crimes
Tax fraud has become increasingly complex, The discussions highlighted the need for close
sophisticated and international in nature, often cooperation not only among tax crime authorities
facilitated by a small group of professionals who but also with the professional bodies to promote a
misuse their expertise and professional status to culture of ethical behaviour, effective training and
help their clients commit tax and other financial due diligence as well as appropriate disclosure
crimes. The speakers noted the importance of mechanisms. Panellists shared experiences on
the new OECD publication, Ending the Shell collaborative investigations, including through the
Game: Cracking Down on The Professionals Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), as
Who Enable Tax and White Collar Crimes, in well as on recent legislative initiatives such as the
shining a spotlight on the role of professional introduction of a corporate criminal offence in the
enablers and in sharing knowledge and best UK allowing the prosecution of companies which
practices, including on the key elements of fail to prevent their employees from facilitating tax
strategic responses at the domestic and evasion.
international level.
Left to right, from top:
Simon York, Director, Fraud Investigation
Service, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs,
(HMRC), United Kingdom; Grace Perez-
Navarro, Deputy Director, CTPA, OECD; Jim
Lee, Chief, IRS Criminal Investigation, US
Internal Revenue Service; Will Fitzgibbon,
Senior Reporter, International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists; Caroline Lee, Deputy
Chair, International Ethics Standards Board for
Accountants (IESBA)
12Highlights session: Building back with integrity
« The OECD remains committed to The Forum allowed for a holistic and evidence-
supporting governments, businesses based approach to promoting integrity, as seen
and civil society to weather the storm. » with the launch of the OECD Public Integrity
OECD Deputy Secretary-General Jeffrey Toolkit, the OECD Public Integrity Indicators
Schlagenhauf and the online corruption risk-assessment tool
The pandemic has highlighted many underlying for the private sector. The pandemic has also
structural weaknesses across the globe, and has brought old challenges into a new, bigger and
underscored the urgency in fighting corruption. international dimension, such as the risk of rising
This forward-looking discussion reflected on the public sector fraud linked to unprecedented
insights shared during the three-day Forum, and government spending; the OECD stands ready
discussed actionable change to ensure that the to collect proven practices on how to prevent
post-COVID world invests in integrity to create a and detect public sector fraud.
more equal and sustainable future. The closing panel echoed a unanimous call for
As governments deliver extraordinary economic stronger action to promote integrity as a guiding
relief packages and as many countries continue principle in shaping the post-COVID economy
to procure emergency medical equipment, and society. The 2022 OECD Global Anti-
there are increased risks for fraud, corruption Corruption & Integrity Forum will offer a platform
and integrity violations. The Forum discussions to take stock on how these conversations have
provided numerous tools and lessons learned shaped new policies and the important lessons
on how governments and businesses can we have learned in leading with integrity.
ensure that essential services reach those who
need them the most, and uphold standards of
transparency and safeguard integrity measures
in their leadership, health and environmental
policies, action plan for youth, procurement
processes and many more.
Left to right, from top: Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair, Transparency International; Klaus Moosmayer, Member
of the Executive Committee and Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis, Jeffrey Schlagenhauf,
OECD Deputy Secretary-General; Elsa Pilichowski, Director, Public Governance, OECD; Pierre Moscovici, First
President, Cour des comptes, France
13Knowledge Partner sessions and external sessions
Over 40 sessions of the virtual 2021 OECD The Forum’s Knowledge Partnership aims to
Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum were enrich content and perspectives by bringing new
organised by other institutions all over the world. insights from the field. The 2021 Knowledge
This created a truly global event, as sessions Partner sessions covered a wide range of topics,
were hosted in Africa, the Americas, Asia and from corruption in the environment, procurement
Europe. monitoring and IT innovation to corruption in
the art market, promoting integrity maturity, and
much more.
Watch the session recordings and read
more about the OECD’s work on
anti-corruption & integrity at
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