The Court of Accounts of the Republic and its contribution to national security and development

Abstract

One of the main mechanisms for detecting acts of corruption are audits and complaints, actions carried out by legal mandate by the Court of Accounts of the Republic (hereinafter CCR), an aspect on which the importance of this article is based, in which is about determining what these actions are and what they consist of, the effectiveness they currently have and how they contribute to national security and development. The above, because the phenomenon of corruption can be considered as that action carried out by people who hold power and that goes against what is honest or legal. These actions can generate negative effects of different kinds, such as economic, political, moral, psychological, humanitarian, ecological and security effects; situation that has been investigated, analyzed and developed at the international level by the United Nations Organization. In that order, with the understanding that national security goes beyond common crimes of social crime, because it also includes all the phenomena that limit national development, one of them being corruption. In this sense, it is established that investigating and combating corruption by the CCR contributes to the National Security and Development of our country.