To collaborate with three anti-graft organizations to look into coverage fraud
PUBLISHED: 6 Mar 2025 at 04: 00
Three condition anti-corruption organizations have agreed to work up to examine large-scale government procurement tasks for any indications of policy-oriented problem.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission ( NACC), State Audit Office ( SAO ), and Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission ( PACC ) signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU) on Wednesday.
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.
” The work of deterring fraud in large-scale tasks isn’t the role of a single organization. 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 may contribute to a huge project’s potential for fraud and make recommendations for improving transparency in the task in the wake of the MoU, according to the MoU.
The president’s facilities, transportation, electricity, 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 inspection” 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, secretary-general of the PACC, the PACC has already adopted a fraud risk evaluation system to assess the risk of policy-oriented bone in a large-scale federal funding job. It is willing to collaborate more closely with the NACC and SAO.