Welcome back to the podcast, Bribes, Swindle, or Steel. I'm Alexandra Ragi, and today we're talking about compliance challenges and the current corruption landscape in Mexico.

My guest is Danielle Moldonado, and he is a partner at Trace's partner firm in Mexico,

Sanchez-Divani. He co-chairs the corporate governance and compliance practice group of the firm

and advises on complex internal corporate investigations. He's designed and implemented

compliance programs and has been a great supporter of the anti-bribery work of Trace, for which we're

very grateful. Thank you for joining me, Danielle. Good morning, Alexandra. It's a pleasure for me to

join you. Thank you. In July 2016, your president approved the laws of Mexico's new national

anti-corruption system. Before we dig in a bit, can you summarize the impact of that law in Mexico?

The national anti-corruption system is an effort that takes great relevance in Mexico

because it was primarily pushed by the society in general. So this is a huge achievement

for the Mexican society because the beginning of the presidency of Mr. Enrique Pena Nieto, he sent to the

Congress a bill that for the perception of the public in general missed a lot of good points

that needed to be included. So with the push of the citizens as a general, finally, 2016 was enacted a new framework on anti-corruption

preceded by a constitutional reform that was passed in 2015.

So I think what is important for us not to overlook that this is not an initiative from any political party because it's more like an accomplishment

from the society as a general. So that's a great achievement. And it certainly was a major

reform at the constitutional level and then secondary legislation was passed. The impact that this

will have is this a system. It's not that we'll have in

Mexico an nighttime corruption czar. It's different from other jurisdictions. So this will include,

as the core of the national decorruption system, a citizenship committee, which is led nowadays

by five individuals that because of their personal achievements in the

past against corruption were appointed in that role.

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