GOV.BW

Monitoring and Legal Enforcement does the following key functions:

• Receipt and assessment of declarations of interests, income, assets and liabilities
• Analysis and verification of information in the declarations
• Keeping the declarations in safe custody
• Maintaining registers of persons who have declared on time and those who have been issued with notices, by the Directorate, as well as persons upon whom administrative, criminal and other penalties have been imposed for failing to comply with the Act
• Monitoring the interests, income, assets and liabilities of a certain category of persons, for the purposes of detecting and preventing corruption, money laundering and acquisition of property from proceeds of any other offence
• Issuing of notices to persons who fail to declare on time
• Imposing administrative penalties on persons who fail to declare on time
• Referring matters to relevant authorities for appropriate action, including criminal action, where necessary
• Investigating suspected or alleged non-compliance with the Act

Asset Declaration and Management includes the following functions:

• Development of guidelines on conflict of interest
• Review of conflict of interest declarations to determine declarants’ adherence to the guidelines.
• Notification of declarants and relevant authorities of actual or potential conflict of interest based on review of conflict of interest declarations
• Development of a Code of Ethics, and overseeing its implementation
• Investigating complaints on any breach of the code of ethics
• Collaboration with other entities on the development and promotion of standards and best practice on ethical conduct