Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Asia Pacific

In August, law enforcement officials from across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies descended on the tropical island of Cebu, in the Philippines, to participate in the second meeting of the Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies Network (ACT-NET). The ACT-NET initiative was established by APEC’s 2014 Beijing Declaration on Fighting Corruption, in which member economies pledged, among other things, to eliminate corruption through enhanced cooperation in extradition, judicial assistance, and more flexible legal processes to recover illicit proceeds of corruption and other financial crime within the APEC economies.

This article originally appeared in Ethisphere magazine.