Kolkata

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that India’s zero-tolerance approach for corruption also guides its approach towards international cooperation for combating corruption. 
While addressing the inaugural session of the G20 anti-graft ministerial meeting in Kolkata, the union minister said, G20 Anti-Corruption Ministerial meeting is an opportunity for all of us to demonstrate the collective and strong political will to lead the global fight against corruption.

India’s zero-tolerance approach to corruption also guides our approach towards international cooperation in combating corruption, he said.
The union minister also recalled the 9-point agenda on fugitive economic offenders presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to G20 in 2018. 
It called for strong and active cooperation across G20 countries in legal processes and mechanisms to deny safe haven to all fugitive economic offenders, effective implementation of international commitments, establishment of international cooperation for timely and comprehensive exchange of information and formulation of a standard definition of fugitive economic offenders, development of a set of commonly agreed and standardised procedures for dealing with fugitive economic offenders by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), setting up of a common platform for sharing experiences and best practices and initiation of work on locating properties of economic for its recovery.
Lauding the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group for publishing an important G20 action paper on International Cooperation dealing with Economic Crime, Offenders and Recovery of Stolen Assets in 2020, Singh said, it underscored the commitment of G20 countries to make efforts towards the denial of safe havens and facilitate the return of such fugitives and recovery of stolen assets.