The business community discussed the draft Anti-Corruption Policy Concept

At a meeting chaired by Akim of the Atyrau region Makhambet Dosmukhambetov, representatives of the business community discussed the draft Anti-Corruption Policy Concept for 2022-2026, the Press Service of the akim of the region reports.

The main purpose of the meeting is to form legal consciousness in the business sector on compliance with anti-corruption laws and collect proposals for the draft concept.

Gibat Kukatov, Deputy Head of the Department for the Atyrau Region of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, who made a report on the agenda, said that the draft Anti-Corruption Policy Concept, developed in pursuance of the National Plan for the Implementation of the Address of the Head of State, covers the next five years and gave clarifications on its main directions.

According to him, all the problems that have accumulated today, directly or indirectly related to corruption, were analyzed. To solve this problem, the draft Concept provides for 6 blocks of tasks. These are: formation of intolerance to corruption; minimizing opportunities for corruption; ensuring the inevitability of liability; measures for further large-scale involvement of civil society in combating corruption; monitoring of anti-corruption policy; further improvement of the activities of the authorized body for combating corruption.

Gibat Kukatov, Deputy Head of the Department, in his speech, focusing on combating corporate corruption, noted the importance of taking into account the opinion of entrepreneurs when developing anti-corruption measures.

"Currently, the fight against corruption is of a preventive nature and is aimed at preventing corruption. Today, in our activities, we focus on solving systemic problems, we are actively working to promote the ideology of integrity. I hope that the business community will sincerely support this initiative," G. Kukatov summed up.

Summing up the meeting, the head of the region Makhambet Dosmukhambetov noted the importance of the issue under consideration and the need for a thorough study by local executive bodies of the draft Anti-Corruption Policy Concept for making proposals and instructed to regularly work on combating corruption.

The participants of the event made their proposals and recommendations for further improvement of anti-corruption policy, improvement of interaction between the state and business.