Conflict of interest is one of the most prominent aspects of contemporary corruption, as it is one of its most important tributaries, as it represents the deviation of authority and public office from achieving the interest sought by the legislator, which is the basis of the administration's work - namely the public interest - and it deviates the administration's activities to achieve personal interests and goals that conflict with the public interest and conflict with it.Hence the importance of administrative mechanisms that aim to uncover, manage and prevent conflicts of interest. In addition to being mechanisms to prevent corruption and its tributaries, they are also characterised by their preventive nature that aims to prevent corruption before it occurs. These mechanisms transfer anti-corruption efforts from the field of criminal law to the field of administrative law, i.e. preventing acts of corruption before they even become a crime. They are a link between addressing corruption in administrative law and criminal law. With the development of public administration and its modern methods in the field of combating corruption, mechanisms for addressing conflicts of interest criminally will gradually recede in favour of administrative law.
Sally Juma (Sun,) studied this question.