China News Service, Beijing, November 6 (Reporter Xie Yanbing) The 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress voted to pass the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law on November 6. The formulation of the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law is of great significance to improving China's anti-corruption and foreign-related legal system and promoting anti-cross-border corruption work with legal thinking and legal methods.
The law has 6 chapters and 47 articles, including mechanisms and responsibilities, case handling and international cooperation, integrity and compliance, legal responsibilities, etc. This law shall come into effect on the date of promulgation.
The person in charge of the National Legal Office of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said in response to reporters' questions that the anti-cross-border corruption law will be formulated to promote the organic connection of supervision and investigation, criminal justice, administrative law enforcement, integrity and compliance, international cooperation and other work, and to promote the integrated promotion of those who dare not, cannot, and do not want to corrupt. The formation of a specialized anti-corruption foreign-related law that integrates punishment, prevention, and countermeasures is of great significance for filling the gaps in China's special anti-corruption legislation, improving China's anti-corruption foreign-related legal system, and promoting anti-cross-border corruption work with legal thinking and legal methods.
The person in charge of the Law and Regulation Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission and the International Cooperation Bureau said that the law clarifies the principles, scope and propositions of China's anti-cross-border corruption work, clarifies the anti-cross-border corruption work mechanism and responsibilities, strengthens case handling and international cooperation, clarifies corporate integrity and compliance obligations, and also clarifies legal responsibilities.
A special chapter of the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law stipulates "integrity and compliance." The person in charge of the Regulations Office and International Cooperation Bureau of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission said that China has passed legislation for the first time to elevate corporate integrity and compliance from policy requirements to legal obligations, embed preventive measures on integrity and compliance into the legal system, and promote enterprises to establish an integrity and compliance system that is based on China's reality and is in line with international standards. At the same time, the regulatory responsibilities of the competent authorities shall be consolidated, enterprises shall be urged to implement their legal obligations of integrity and compliance, and consciously prevent cross-border corruption.
The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law has improved the legal "toolbox" for handling foreign-related cases in many aspects. Among them, the regulations on fugitive pursuit, escape prevention and illicit recovery have been improved, stipulating to strengthen the supervision and rectification of public officials illegally obtaining overseas identities and setting up overseas accounts, and stipulating specific measures to prevent the flight of persons involved in the case and carry out overseas fugitive pursuit and illicit recovery.
