Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Alexander Rogi, and today I'm in Vibrant Hong Kong with Commissioner Simon Pei of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the ICAC.

Mr. Pay has been Commissioner of the ICAC since 2012, and the organization will be known to many of you as a formidably effective group and a model for other anti-corruption bodies across Asia and elsewhere.

So thank you for joining me, Commissioner.

Welcome, Acendra.

Why don't you start by just providing an overview of the ICAC?

I think it is an older organization, the most people know, older than the FCPA in the United States, and how it's structured and the three

pillars that you often talk about. The ICAC was established in 1974. At that time, the corruption

problem in Hong Kong was very rampant. And at that time,

the government has a determination

to set up this independent

agency to tackle corruption

problem. The organization

has been very successful,

and the serious corruption

problem basically was

remedied in 10, 15 years. And after that, we have been

keeping the society clean, corruption free. And up to now, I think Hong Kong is one of the cities

in the world which has least corruption.

From the outset, our organization is, we call it a three-prong approach.

We have the enforcement division, which will deal with the law enforcement.

We have the Community Relations Department which would deal with education,

purposeity, and enlisting support.

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