Bolivia Senate
Considers Anti-Corruption Bill
LA PAZ - Bolivian Senators' acting President
Rene Martinez said on Wednesday the upper
house would debate a bill against
corruption, called Marcelo Quiroga Santa
Cruz, after the founder of the Socialist
Party.
According to Martinez, the plenary session
of the 36 legislators will receive the
reports approved by the committees of
Justice and Constitution.
He also asserted that the future law will
have a holistic view of the struggle against
this scourge and the investigation of
ill-gotten wealth, in correspondence with
the new Political Constitution of the State
that came into force a year ago.
He announced that according to the proposal,
rejected by the opposition, which is now the
minority in Parliament, the regulation will
maintain its retroactive nature and invest
the authorities with the power to try former
national and departmental authorities.
The Quiroga Santa Cruz law establishes the
procedures to prevent, investigate,
prosecute, sentence and recover the State
assets through the competent jurisdictional
authorities, as well as corruption acts
committed by public servants.
It also introduces the principle of
imprescriptibility, in other words, the no-extintion
of rights and actions of the State, with the
path of time, in crimes of corruption and
illicit enrichment.
The regulation does not recognize immunity,
or privileges of any kind. |
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