| dc.description.abstract | A. There are relatively numerous legal laws to regulate the public administrators/officers from the possible corruption, but the legal rules to regulate the similar conducts from the private sectors are either uncompleted or deficient.
While discussing the possible corruptions, we often refer as a common or routine behavior of the public administrators and/or officers. There were numerous and detailed legal laws to regulate and penalize the public officers/administrators from taking illegal conducts. However, corruption did not happen exclusively to public officers/administrators, it happens to private sectors as well. There is urgent need to examine the possible corruptions in the private sectors. The process of making decisions of the private sectors seems to be more rigid and concise than that of the public sectors. Because of the nature of their major business conducts were based on quality, timely efficiency, and capital profit, the duration of making decision is short. And because their profits depend primarily upon the trust on their professional managers, there seems to be more likelihood of business bribing and/or corruption occurs to the private sectors.
B. The need to mend legal rules and include it in the anti-business bribing laws
Up to the present time, there were no legal rules to indicate that business bribing is an illegal act. There was also no definition of “unjustified interest of business bribes”. In the past, all related business bribes of the private sectors were handled as “antitrust” or “interest invasion”. There was no regulation of these bribing behaviors; nevertheless, that did not mean that these conducts were legal. However, there were situations that are frustrations to the private sectors. For example, there were cases such as there were no legal ways to get the approval of managing a business from the authority except bribing, or there were no legal procedures to get the petroleum except bribing from the relevant authorities. How do we handle these situations legally? An immediate case is that in order to get sufficient supply of petroleum, there would be numerous business bribes from the private sectors when the China Petroleum is privatized. How do we handle these situations?
C. Establishing an independent anti-corruption organization to handle business bribing
There are successful examples of anticorruption performance from Hong Kong and Singapore. We should consider establishing an independent (independent of any political parties) anti-corruption unit in the government. There should be an independent unit in the government, equipped with well planed regulatory laws to regulate the business bribing from the private sectors. The strong determination from the executive party equipped with completed law is the key to minimize the minimize the business bribes from the private sectors. | en_US |