This OECD Report is published by the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD under the guidance of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance and overall supervision of Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness and Head of Division.
The Report was overseen by Tatyana Teplova and Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of Division, Public Sector Integrity, OECD. The Report was primarily authored by Francisco Cardona (Senior international consultant), Giulio Nessi (Integrity Policy Analyst) and María Pascual Dapena (Justice Policy Analyst). International expert support was provided by James Hamilton, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and Henk Marquart Scholtz, former prosecutor and senior state-advocate in the Netherlands. Valuable comments and contributions were also provided by OECD Policy Analysts Olga Savran (Manager of the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia) and Andrii Kukharuk (Anti-corruption Analyst). Editorial assistance was provided by Melissa Sander, Meral Gedik and Andrew Esson. Cicely Dupont-Nivore provided administrative support.
The OECD is deeply grateful to the State Audit Office of Latvia for engaging the organisation in this unique process, as well as to Latvia’s Prosecutor General, Mr. Stukans, and to all the involved Latvian institutions for their remarkable co-operation, information and insights provided:
Administrative Director of the General Prosecutor’s Office
Association of Judges
Association of Prosecutors
Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB)
Latvian Judicial Training Centre
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Justice
Prosecutor General’s Office
Regional, district and city prosecutors’ offices
Specialised public prosecutor’s office in financial and economic crime
State Police
Tax and Customs Police of the State Revenue Service
The OECD is also grateful to the representatives of the Latvian chapter of Transparency International for their contributions.
The OECD extends special thanks to the peer-reviewers in prosecution services of OECD countries who dedicated their time and expertise to provide inputs on behalf of their countries for this Report, from the following institutions:
Mgr. Jiří Pavlík, Deputy to Prosecutor General, Czech Republic
Sara Kieler Hansen, Office of the General Prosecutor, Denmark
Mr. Mika Appelsin, Prosecutor General’s Office, Finland
Ministry of Justice of France
French Court of Accounts and the Office of its Prosecutor General
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ireland
Netherlands Public Prosecution Service, Parket-Generaal, International Affairs Department
Crown Law of New Zealand
Gabinete da Procuradora-Geral da República, Portugal
High Council, Procuradora-Geral da República, Portugal
Mrs. Linda Billfalk Åkerlund, Swedish Prosecutor General’s Office