Challenges of Supervision in Confronting the Corruption

The issue of preventing and confronting the administrative and financial corruption is one of the most important issues in the country’s criminal policy. How to formulate a good and effective criminal policy in confront the corruption, especially at the level of government staff, has always been a concern for the government. Because the administrative and financial corruption, in addition to its serious damage to the administrative system, sometimes disrupts public safety, while at the same time it makes damage to public confidence in government and public institutions. According to the Article 174 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, monitoring the proper flow of affairs, and the proper implementation of the law, is an important mission for the General Inspection Organization of Iran. This organization, based on the adopted rules and regulations, should monitor and supervise the performance of the agents (government staff) in the administrative system at all levels, and subsequently, in the event of detection and confirmation of the offense and crime, the implementation
of the provisions of the Note 1 of Article 5 of the Law on the General Inspection Organization of Iran, after approval by the judicial inspector, who requests it with the submission of a special report, prosecuting the related persons ordering from the judicial authority. In this paper, it is examined that some actions in the administrative systems, and regulatory oversight bodies in general are not clearly determined as criminal, however they are explained by presenting the examples.