President Fern?ndez yesterday sent to Congress yesterday a package of five measures he says will help fight corruption. The package includes: (1) an Ethics Code for Public Servants, which draws heavily upon the principles of the 1994 Inter-American Anti-Corruption Convention agreed under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS) [although the DR signed the Convention in March 1996, it has yet to ratify it]; (2) a draft law on money laundering; (3) a draft law against "transnational" bribery; (4) changes in the Legal Declaration of Goods public servants must make to better reveal conflicts of interest; (5) modifications in the Penal Code to toughen sanctions against "classic manifestations of corruption."
