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The Mission of the Centre

The mission of the Centre is to offer specialized assistance and guidance to victims and witnesses of corruption or abuse in the public sector, in regard to the administrative and judiciary means to follow their complaints. After the Centre's beneficiaries have filed official complaints with the competent bodies, the Centre will monitor methods and institutional capacity put to use by the respective bodies in order to solve the issues raised in the complaints. In conjunction with this, the Centre may not act as an administrative or justice body in any way, and cannot look into the complaint on behalf of the competent bodies.

In carrying out its activities, the Centre:

  • retains and monitors only those complaints whose objects are acts of corruption or with a high risk of corruption in the public sector
  • may not give, as if it were a penal or disciplinarian investigation body, verdicts on the indubitable existence or absence of corruption, its function being to record clues, guide plaintiffs, to send the information to the authorities and monitor the cases, to issue periodical report and release information regarding the monitored cases to the public
  • supports public positions that are exclusively for the purpose of presenting corruption cases and militating for their solving, without becoming involved in campaigns against public individuals or institutions
  • may not represent plaintiffs in a court of law, but has the obligation to assist beneficiaries in the steps they decide to take against any administrative or disciplinarian body involved in the case; the Centre does not perform penal investigations or tests
  • does not have the right to make cases public without the consent of the beneficiaries who filed the complaint
  • does not provide assistance and guidance in cases where there is a court trial in progress
  • does not aim to campaign against individuals or institutions
  • does not draft procedural documents for beneficiary, only guides whistleblowers, victims and witnesses to corruption regarding the ways in which the authorities should be notified;
  • offers assistance for only one case at a time for each beneficiary

To ensure optimum cooperation with the Centre, beneficiaries are not to use the Centre's name in their ulterior endeavours, as proof of the existence or absence of corruption. The Centre reserves the right to cease assistance is case this rule is violated through the beneficiary's using the name of the Centre without the Centre's consent, or if the beneficiary makes the case public in the mass-media while he/she is still assisted by the Centre.