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On February 5 and 6 of, 1997, as a result
of demonstrations that about two million of Ecuadorians carried out,
it was dismissed of the Presidency of the Republic the attorney Abdalá
Bucaram Ortiz. |
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On February 5 and 6 of, 1997, as a result of demonstrations
that about two million of Ecuadorians carried out, it was dismissed
of the Presidency of the Republic the attorney Abdalá Bucaram
Ortiz. The National Congress designated in an interim way to President
Fabian Alarcón Rivera, who, before fulfilling his first month
in power (March 4, 1997), by pressure of the social movements and
of the public opinion, created the Commission Against Corruption.
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The demonstration of Ecuadorian people was interpreted and used
in different ways by both political and social sectors of Ecuador.
However, everybody agreed the acts of corruption of the Bucaram
regime was one of the determinant causes for popular uprising. But
corruption was not a patrimony of that regime. Power abuse, traffic
of influences, hiring both non qualified officers and public personnel,
nepotism, obligatory grafts in the public contracting, and other
type of irregularities come from the foundation of the Republic
itself.
Therefore, it was created the Commission Against Corruption as an
organization of independent control that prevents corruption, investigates
acts of corruption and monitors that in all criminal processes the
responsible for irregular acts on previous and current governments
be duly punished.
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At it's session of April 30, 1998, the National Constitutional
Assemble created the Civic Counter Corruption Commission. |
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The Commission Against Corruption began under two
Executive Decrees, but it was the National Constituent Assembly of
1998 the one which institutionalized it as a Civic Counter Corruption
Commission (C.C.C.C.) upon establishing its force in the Constitution
of the Republic (Articles 220 and 221) and fixing the struggle against
corruption as a State policy. |
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On September 21, 1998 seven commissioners nominated
by the President of the Republic took office, based on the transient
Thirtieth of the Constitution, that empowered him to appoint them
directly. During 17 months of their management, they achieved the
approval of the Organizational Law of the Civic Counter Corruption
Commission -on August 5- that entered in force seven days afterwards,
with the publication in the Official Gazette No. 253 of August 12,
1998. |
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The members of the Second Commission finished their
duties on February 23, 2000 to give step to the designation of current
members of the C.C.C.C appointed in representation of the civil society.
They will complete their period in February of year 2004.
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The investigations of the Commission are carried out
in a political independence framework which were originated in a legal
and technical rigor of the ethical sustenance and of the purposes
that are the basis and guide reasons for having been created such
a Commission.
Within the legal limitations of the obstructionist culture of the
highest levels of bureaucracy and jealousy derived from the citizen
control fear, the Commission works with responsibility.
From the beginning until the present time, the Civic Counter Corruption
Commission of Ecuador, an organization of Control which represents
the Ecuadorian society, ratifies that because of its essence, all
acts are beyond any circumstance and/or political influences, and
its main task is struggle corruption, and serve the moral and the
interests of the country, with independence and responsibility.
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