The Economic Crime Office (ECO) was the anti-corruption agency of Mauritius.
ECO was established under the Economic Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act (2000) to comply with the 1988 United Nations (UN) convention.
Under the Act money laundering became a punishable crime and it claso set out the process for reporting suspicious transactions.
[2] A total of 35 cases of fraud and corruption were investigated by ECO between the months of July and December 2000.
After being in existence for less than 2 years the ECO was dismantled by the new MSM-MMM coalition government.