Independent Commission Against Corruption (Mauritius)


The Independent Commission Against Corruption is the Anti-corruption agency of Mauritius. The ICAC is headed by the Director-General.

History and Establishment

ICAC was established under the Prevention of Corruption Act 2002. It was created to replace the defunct Economic Crime Office which was dismantled by the MSM-MMM government in December 2001. ICAC has 3 main functions;
ICAC strategic objectives are to;
In 2015, an arrest warrant issued for the director of public prosecutions sparked a debate about the impartiality of the government's anti-corruption campaign. A board member of the ICAC, handed in her resignation, claiming that the institution was in the process of going against the country's democratic principles, apparently implying that the commission was not acting independently. In 2006, ICAC initiated an investigation to dismantle a network of University of Mauritius lecturers moonlighting in other universities.