Eliminating Corruption and Abuse of Office

Legal and Regulatory Basis

• In accordance with the Order of Tai-45-(Nei) No. 4711 dated August 27, 1956, the Executive Yuan promulgated 10 administrative duties to the Bureau, and the Bureau executes anti-corruption tasks in accordance with “corruption and malfeasance” as prescribed in Item 5, and “investigations and infrastructure security upon special orders from higher-ranking authorities” in Item 10.
• The Division One of the Bureau was formerly in charge of anti-corruption operation. In May 1979, the “Economic Crime Prevention Center” was established, and it was expanded the “Corruption and Economic Crime Prevention Center” in August of the same year to strengthen the prevention of corruption and economic crimes.
• Established the Corruption Eradication Department in February 1989 to be specifically responsible for handling anti-corruption operations. The Corruption Eradication Department was manned by 1 Director, held concurrently by the Deputy Director General of the Bureau, 1 Executive Officer, 2 Deputy Directors, and was supported by 5 sections to be specifically responsible for investigating and processing major corruption/ malfeasance cases. At that point, anti-corruption work was segregated from the Bureau’s other crime investigation operations as an independent focused task force.
• In 1991, the Corruption Eradication Department changed its name to the Anti-Corruption Division. In addition to comprehensively guiding the Field Divisions and Offices and mobile offices to actively uncover and investigate major corruption cases, it actively coordinated various government agencies as well as taxation and customs supervisory (inspection) units to strengthen measures to prevent corruption, in order to achieve the goal of corruption/malfeasance eradication and administrative governance transparency. Then, the election of the representatives of the Second National Assembly was held. The Bureau, under the instruction of the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Justice, has been investigating bribery as special projects in all elections ever since.
• On May 1, 1992, the Bureau established the “Public Construction Fraud Prevention Task Force” in the Anti-Corruption Division in order to step up the prevention, investigation, and processing of public construction project fraud cases. The Task Force is responsible for planning, promoting and implementing the operation. All members of the Eastern Region Mobile Office were assigned to form the “Major Public Construction Fraud Investigation and Crackdown Task Force”. This task force is specifically responsible for handling major public construction project fraud cases, and has also ordered various pertaining field Divisions, Offices and Unites to step up the integration of government employee ethics officers aimed at enhancing the grasp of information by an active gathering of evidence and pursuit of investigation of such cases.
• The Executive Yuan issued Letter Tai-87-Fa No. 53381 to amend and approve the nine items of the duties of the Bureau, of which Item 4, "Prevention of corruption and malfeasance and inspection and investigation of vote-buying in elections", explicitly specified the investigation of vote-buying in elections as the Bureau’s duties.
• The Bureau, in supporting government policy, raise our efforts in actively uncovering the cases, fulfill our powers and responsibilities in active investigation, strictly uphold justice in case processing procedure, accelerate case processing effectiveness, and to investigate and process major benchmark cases. The Bureau also installed a toll-free anti-corruption hotline 0800-007-007 to encourage the general public to send in tips and leads with tangible action to demonstrate their anti-corruption and corruption eradication determination.
• Pursuant to the Organic Act for Investigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, which went to effect in 2008, the Bureau legalized the Anti-Corruption Division. Article 6 of the Act stipulates that “The Anti-Corruption Division is charged with the following undertakings: (1) The planning, guidance, coordination, and evaluation of corruption/malfeasance and vote-buying case investigation and prevention work; (2) national security, national interest, and anti-corruption-related investigations specifically entrusted by superior agencies; (3) other pertinent anti-corruption undertakings," which is the foundation of the anti-corruption operation of the Bureau.

Operation Framework

The Anti-Corruption Division is in charge of the Bureau’s anti-corruption operations, and is headed by the Division Director, who oversees the overall management of departmental affairs, and the Division Deputy Director and Senior Secretary who assists with the processing of departmental affairs. The Anti-Corruption Division was integrated into four sections. Each section’s division of work is described below:

• Corruption and Malfeasance Intelligence Section:Handle the consolidation and analysis of corruption intelligence information through horizontal linkage mechanisms as well as the development, management and maintenance of the Bureau’s internal information system; integrate the Bureau’s existing database and external public information with corruption intelligence information into the information system to facilitate information integration and reuse for colleagues to acquire complete information quickly and discover clues to corruption so as to improve the effectiveness of case investigation.
• Northern Investigation Section:Handle public construction fraud cases, property and labor procurement fraud cases, general corruption cases, and investigation cases specially assigned by higher levels; perform administrative tasks; review the investigation process of cases transferred; handle other planning and supervisory tasks in the northern region and Kinmen, Matsu, Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung.
• Southern Investigation Section:In charge of the operational planning and supervision of the investigating and administrative processing of public construction fraud cases, monetary goods and labor rendered procurement fraud cases, general corruption/malfeasance cases in the central and southern region and Penghu, and cases specifically assigned by superior agencies, as well as review of the investigation process of cases transferred.
• Vote-buying Investigation Section:Handle general operations on the planning, monitoring, evaluation, business statistics, training, and performance evaluation of the anti-corruption work; organizing consultation committee meetings for public projects and operations review meetings on an irregular basis; coordinating and contacting the Inspection Division of the Taxation Administration and Internal Affairs Office of the Customs Administration under the Ministry of Finance as well as other units to review coordination among different units; reviewing the planning and execution of vote-buying investigation and crackdown projects; reviewing the referred case investigation process; reviewing and approving the case studies of corruption/malfeasance cases; editing and compiling the anti-corruption manual and criminal investigation manual; handling other administrative work.