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Video: Corruption in Venezuela – The Coming Reckoning

AS/COA launched the CCC Index with a discussion on the fight for transparency in Venezuela.

Speakers:

  • Mercedes de Freitas, Executive Director, Transparencia Venezuela 
  • José Ignacio Hernández, Special Prosecutor, Interim Government of Venezuela 
  • Geert Aalbers, Senior Partner, Control Risks
  • Roberto Simon, Senior Director for Policy and Head of the Anti-Corruption Working Group, AS/COA (moderator)

As AS/COA launched the Capacity to Combat Corruption Index, the first instance of an annual tool co-developed by its Anti-Corruption Working Group and Control Risks, Roberto Simon presented the Index's results and moderated a discussion on the fight for transparency in Venezuela. The event included Mercedes de Freitas, the recipent of AS/COA's inaugural Anti-Corruption Leadership Award.

 

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