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Bureau Indépendant Anti Corruption MADAGASCAR
IMPACTS OF GRAND CORRUPTION ON THE ENVIRONMENT
MALAGASY EXPERIENCE
Global Expert Group Meeting on Corruption Involving Vast Quantities of Assets
3-5 December 2018 Lima, PERU
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Content- Madagascar’s environmental
particularities- Impacts of grand corruption
- Traffic of rosewood: Modus operandi
- Challenges
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MADAGASCAR
-In less than a hundred years the forest cover of Madagascar, one of the world’s most important hotspots of biodiversity, has fallen dramatically-Madagascar has unique nature and most of the species found in the island live only in Madagascar (More than 80 %)-In 2017, Madagascar was the country with the highest deforestation rate in the world
Causes: -Slash and burn agriculture-Bush fires-Illicit wood cuttings
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and …
CORRUPTION
88 cases handled on rosewoodtraffic by BIANCO - Cost and stake : 13 Billion USD Rosewood cost: 30 000USD/T 300 000 cut rosewoods seized 510 000 Hectares of Forest has
disapeared 4% of the national Forest(Global Forest Watch)
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HOW?- The business of the natural
ressources exploitation earn priceless benefits
- Poverty and lack of education of the community
- Impunity due to strong network of corruption and weakness of law enforcement
- Failure of the judiciary system
- Lack of political will
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POLITICAL WILLFebruary the 5th 2014, the new elected President of Republic of MadagascarHery Rajaonarimampianina, declared :« I’m going to lead personnalythis fight against trafics
of rosewood».Political speech
Political Commitement Decision
Actions
ResultsImpacts
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MODUS OPERANDI Illegal authorization Illicit cutting Transportation and
physical protection Boarding on ship Export by corruption
customs Smuggling by border
police corruption and legalization of exportation by senior executive officials
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MODUS OPERANDI Legal and judiciary
protection
Financing of important political parties Being parliamentarian
to benefit immunity protection recognized by Constitution
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CHALLENGES- Education of the population to take
care and to protect environement and to denounce all illicit activities
- Strengthening of the whatchdog role of the civil society
- Law enforcement: Prosecution and conviction of all the traffickers of the rosewood mafia network from top to bottom
- Independence and implementation of the special Court against trafic of precious woods
- Real Political Will- Strengthening of International
cooperation