PUBLISHED: 6 Mar 2025 at 04: 00
The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission ( PACC), State Audit Office ( SAO ), and National Anti-Corruption Commission ( NACC ) have come to a consensus to audit large-scale government procurement projects for any indications of policy-oriented corruption.
The graft-busting organizations finalized their agreement in a memorandum of understanding ( MoU) that was signed yesterday.
They will work together to use an auditing system to identify bribery in megaprojects to monitor them.
According to Sarot Pheungramphan, secretary-general of the NACC, the assistance centers will install the program that will enable the organizations to share information with other state firms and non-governmental organizations when it comes to preventing problem.
He claimed that new information technology has been used to develop the system that the Corruption Deterrence Centre ( CDC ) is running.
” An individual organization is not responsible for the work of deterring fraud in large-scale jobs. He continued,” Corruption seriously harms the whole nation.”
Signs of transplant may be detected early and dealt with before causing any serious harm to the country, he said, with the help of the new method for assessing the risk of policy-oriented problem.
According to auditor-general Monthien Charoenpol, the organizations will concentrate on examining factors that could make a big project corrupt and provide recommendations for improving transparency in the project in accordance with this MoU.
The president’s facilities, transportation, power, and public power development tasks, which require substantial funding, are among the large projects that will be looked for for signs of policy-oriented corruption, he said.
When spending the state funds and tax money, the SAO is determined to increase the effectiveness of its “preventive assessment” and make use of it as a vital tool for fostering good management among state firms.
The SAO does work to analyze in-depth data and use it as a tracking mechanism, he said.” The SAO didn’t wait until the damage is done.
According to Phumwisan Kasemsuk, PACC secretary-general, it has already adopted a problem risk evaluation system to assess the risk of policy-oriented transplant in a significant government investment project.