Legislative mechanisms to combat administrative corruption (A comparative study between Emirates and Egyptian law) .

Document Type : Original Article

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College of Law - University of Sharjah

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of national legislative texts in enshrining preventive and procedural measures to combat administrative corruption in the legislation of the United Arab Emirates, as these measures were not mentioned in a single context that reveals and explains them, as they are still scattered in the texts of relevant laws, regulations and ministerial decisions. Not a single author collected it, organized it, and made it accessible to those concerned with its application. The research relied on the inductive and analytical approach, through extrapolation and analysis of legal texts related to legal mechanisms and preventive and procedural measures to combat administrative corruption in UAE legislation. The research reached several results, the most important of which is that The UAE legislator gave the Audit Bureau the right to investigate crimes of administrative corruption and crimes of harming public funds, and to communicate directly with all employees and employees in entities subject to oversight, and to review any document, record, or papers that it deems necessary for the investigation, and to take the necessary precautionary measures. The research recommended the necessity of issuing a federal law concerned with By combating administrative and financial corruption and illicit gain, and working to unify the general principles and procedural, regulatory and preventive provisions related to combating administrative and financial corruption.

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