New Delhi :
Former India captain Rahul Dravid will be the star attraction at CBI’s international conference on corruption which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday and have law minister Kapil Sibal , finance minister P Chidambaram and several other dignitaries in attendance.
Dravid will share his thoughts with the country’s premier investigators on corruption in sports in the backdrop of spot-fixing allegations in IPL. The three-day conference will focus on “evolving common strategies to combat corruption and crime”.
CBI is celebrating its golden jubilee and the conference is being organized as part of the celebrations.
With the cricketing world rocked with allegations of betting and spot-fixing, the agency has decided to introduce a special session on ‘Ethics and Integrity in Sports — Need for a Law and Role of CBI’ on Tuesday evening in which Dravid, Chris Eaton, director, International Centre for Sports Security and Ravi Sawani, chief of BCCI’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) will participate.
“The aim of this session is to recognize the root of the problem, evaluate the regulatory mechanism and legal framework in India and to ponder whether the time has come to have a specialized law to tackle corruption in sports,” CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad said.
Besides corruption in sports, the conference, to be attended by representatives of 20 countries and anti-corruption bureaus of states, will deliberate on issues such as natural resource management and extent of corruption, transnational human trafficking, crime and asset recovery, crimes related to intellectual property rights, cooperation in investigations in high profile cases, among others.
After the inauguration, Sibal will deliberate on the theme of the conference. Chidambaram will address the gathering on Tuesday morning on ‘Building a Criminal Justice System to Deal with Financial Crisis’.
The conference will also be addressed by national security adviser Shivshankar Menon and minister of state for personnel V Narayansamy who will preside over the valedictory session on Wednesday, and will present police medals for meritorious service to CBI officers.
Wim van Geloven, director of Netherlands Forensic Institute, will make a special presentation for the delegates.
The conference, being held at Vigyan Bhawan, was first organized in 1961 with an aim to provide investigating agencies of the country engaged in fighting corruption a common platform to share information, discuss issues of common interest and evolve strategies to combat corruption. This is the 20th conference in this sequence.
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Sports> Off the field> CBI / by Neeraj Chauhan, TNN / November 11th, 2013