Belarus has partly implemented only one out of the twenty pending recommendations on addressing corruption, with no progress registered on others, says the summary of the Interim compliance report by the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published on 1 September.
The Interim compliance report adopted in June 2015 covered the period since the adoption of the Evaluation report in June 2012 and assessed measures taken by the authorities of Belarus to comply with its recommendations. As with all previous reports, Belarus did not authorise the publication of the full report. Therefore, GRECO decided that only its summary would be made public.
The only area where progress has been recorded concerns the introduction of administrative liability of legal persons for money-laundering offences, GRECO says in its report. However, this only partly meets the requirements of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. (more...)