8.4 Powers and Functions of Commission for Investigation of Abuse of

Authority The constitutional position (the CIAA — the Constitution's commission): the Chief Commissioner and the Commissioners; the appointment by the President on the Constitutional Council's recommendation; the fixed term — Article 238-239's family (the constitutional commissions' chapter). The powers and functions: The investigations: the corruption and the abuse of authority — the persons holding public office (the officials' wide net; the constitutional office-holders after the impeachment/removal process); The prosecution: the cases lodged in the Special Court (the specialized corruption forum) — the CIAA as the investigator-and-prosecutor (the institutional difference from the classical ombudsman's recommendation-only design); The complaints' machinery: the citizen's complaints; the own-motion (suo motu) investigations; the sting-and-surprise faces of the anti-corruption practice; The preventive functions: the system's studies (the corruption-prone procedures' reform); the asset-declarations' administration; the awareness campaigns — the integrity system's institutionalization; The departmental actions: the misconduct's referral to the departments (the administrative discipline's parallel track). The critiques (the exam's balance): the appointment's politics (the Constitutional Council's composition and the vacancies' delays); the selective-activation charges (the small-fly-only criticism vs. the untouchable-big-fish); the capacity-and-backlog — the honest audit the examiner rewards.