CIAA's sting operations

On April 21 the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the sting operations that had been undertaken by the anticorruption agency, the Commission for Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA). These operations typically involved the agency’s undercover officers offering cash bribes to public officials, a practice that came close—the Supreme Court apparently thought too close—to entrapment.

Court’s holding is a significant blow to the CIAA, which had been increasingly relying on such operations to nab solicitors of bribe in the public service.