DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

President Luis Abinader presented what he described as the widespread efforts of his government to crack down on administrative corruption. He said there are many challenges ahead. He urged the population to denounce the cases and exercise their right to transparency. He urges people place more complaints and stop seeing corruption as something normal.

He presented advances under the Government Ethics and Integrity Agency (under former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch), the Anti-Fraud Unit (a division of the Comptroller General Office under director Leonidas Radhames Peña) and the Procurement Agency, the purchasing division of government under director Carlos Pimentel.

On the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, the leading global indicator of public sector corruption, the Dominican Republic has a score of 36 in 2024, with a change of 1 since 2023, ranking 104 out...