The opening “of the Panama archive is not an event but a process that will never end. Exposing the file will be magnified and society still have to learn a lot. This point of view during the “Dialogues” at the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg was expressed by the Vice-President of Transparency International Elena Panfilova, the correspondent “of Rosbalt”.
“The Panama files is not an event. It’s a long, long process that will never end. Civil society is interested in the disclosure of information. In our organization of files, which are mini-archives of Panama, come in every day. And for those who think that this global fight against corruption there is a single center order, you need to get used to the new reality,” said Panfilova.
According to experts, anti-corruption activities in the way we knew her before, ends.
“Previously, under this meant the cases, when the corrupt official took a bribe in 10 thousand RUB From grassroots corruption even we’re struggling to catch every little thing. But all care about big corruption. And it is not given in envelopes, it does not come in suitcases, and the whole transaction goes through. Therefore, the future of the fight against corruption means combating the laundering. Not tracking the receipt of bribes, and the search phrase of the 20th article of the UN Convention against corruption — “illicit enrichment”. That is, the fact that the person was the result of acts of corruption. We don’t see the fact of bribery, but may find that this person can never be under Declaration of income. The fight against money actually becomes the new Bastion of the struggle against korruptsiey. Because corruption is meaningful only in the case if you can legalize what they got. Corrupt, you cannot be just like that, you definitely try to legitimize received and want to pass it on to. And without money it is impossible,” she concluded.
Panfilova reminded that on the evening of may 9 in the Internet is lined with another portion of document from “Panamanian archive”.
