Efforts on to curb corruption: CJ: Cooperation being expanded
BEIJING, Sept 6: Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that Pakistan had enhanced cooperation with foreign countries to check the menace of money-laundering.
“The main objective of such cooperation is to retrieve national assets and the ill-gotten money deposited in foreign banks,” he said while talking to APP after attending a panel session of the ongoing 22nd Law Congress here.
The session thoroughly debated anti-corruption laws and administrative measures and called for having more interaction among international community to combat money-laundering and other such transactions.
The chief justice said that Pakistan was holding seminars and workshops to discuss and evolve more effective strategy for combating corruption. “We have developed a lot of cooperation at the international level through signing of treaties and agreements,” he added.
Justice Chaudhry said: “We are sending a message all over the world that we will stand by the international community in its efforts to check corruption and other illegal practices.”
Earlier, the chief justice in a group of top judicial leaders held a meeting with Chinese Minister for Justice Wu Aiying and discussed matters of bilateral cooperation.
Ms Wu assured that her country would maintain friendly relationship with Pakistan and others. China, she said, attached great importance to upholding rule of law and democratic norms and was willing to develop partnership with other countries to achieve the common objective.
Wang Jianming, senior official of China’s National Anti-corruption Bureau, said the international community should work together in building a cooperative mechanism to fight against corruption.
Taking part in the debate during the Congress’ panel session, he said the existing legal mechanism of one country found it difficult to deal with corrupt crimes as trans-national corrupt crimes were rampant.
Many criminals, he said, flee to other country that had not signed an extradition treaty with their resident country before being found guilty, which could help evade legal penalties.—APP
