Myanmar anti-corruption commission member U Thin Maung attended the “Curbing Foreign Bribery in ASEAN Economic Community” regional meeting, which was organized by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the Kingdom of Cambodia with the financial support of the Government of Japan from 2^nd Oct 2014 to 3^rd Oct 2014 at Siem Reap, Cambodia. That meeting was particularly focused on curbing foreign bribery things.

Participants mainly discussed about member country experiences on developing and implementing foreign bribery legislation and mutual legal assistance mechanisms, the methods and processes to prevent, investigate and prosecute efficiently foreign bribery cases and the mechanisms to effectively ensure mutual legal assistance and international cooperation in the enforcement of foreign bribery laws. We promulgated in our anti-corruption law No. 2 and No.3 (f), which showed we could control the foreign bribery at one level. But there is no legal promulgation although we have foreign public official definition. And Myanmar seems better than other regional countries at this point. We commented that to amend the existing laws according to the country is more appropriate than develop new specific law.

We discussed about Mutual Legal Assistance-MLA as second point. And we raised in the group discussion that Myanmar already have Mutual Legal Assistance Law, specific international Co-operation law and Myanmar already drafted the extradition law, so Myanmar doesn’t need to develop the specific law.

There is no detail promulgation although commission role and responsibilities have been promulgated in anti-corruption law No. 16, sub-section N, so we need to amend with by laws for MLA.

We don’t have enough experience and we still need technical support because we only have very short time to implement the process. We need to understand more about necessary process to investigate to the allocated country and also need to analyze our self especially in implementation review.

UNODC suggested in the evaluation program that anti-corruption local authority organizations should develop own website to share information and to implement the activities efficiently through that website.