Paul Massaro on the United States Latest Efforts to Combat Corruption
On June 3, President Biden issued a national security memorandum that established the \u201cFight Against Corruption\u201d as a core national security interest for the United States. The memo described the staggering costs of corruption, with it being \u201cestimated that acts of corruption sap between 2 and 5 percent from global gross domestic product.\u201d The memo also directed U.S. officials to develop a comprehensive presidential strategy focused on anti-corruption.
Alvaro Mara\xf1on sat down with Paul Massaro, the senior policy advisor for counter-kleptocracy at the Helsinki Commission, to speak about the United States government's latest anti-corruption efforts following the June memo. They discussed the latest developments in the efforts to combat corruption, details around the first-ever presidential strategy on anti-corruption and the kinds of messages these unified efforts send to other authoritarian regimes beyond Russia.
For more on this topic, consider watching \u201cCountering Oligarchs, Enablers, and Lawfare,\u201d a hearing on Wednesday, April 6, at 2:30 p.m., hosted by the Helsinki Commission.
Disclaimer: Paul Massaro serves on the staff of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent an official position of the U.S. government.
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