The Arias administration will set up an ethics commission to handle complains of wrongdoing by public officials.

The objective is that public officials observe the highest ethical values in their political actions and in the exercise of their public position, said Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, minister of the Presidencia and the brother of the president.

Óscar Arias Sánchez, the president, signed a decree that brings into force the ethical standards.  The ethics commission will be made up of three highly placed officials, a statement from Casa Presidencial said.

Arias said he was going to do this.