KIEV, Ukraine -- Three out of four Ukrainians expect their country's management of the Euro 2012 football championships, which it is co- hosting with Poland, to be at least partially corrupt, according to poll data made public Friday.
A whopping 76 per cent of Ukrainians said they "were sure or almost sure" their country's preparations for the tournament would see graft, kick backs or other
Congressional Quarterly is reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has asked the FBI to investigate looting from inside the organization. The NRCC is the funding-arm for the GOP, politicians who sit down together and strategize which Congressional and/or US Senatorial races need a boost during election cycles. I suspect solving the [...]
KIEV, Ukraine -- When Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky publicly accused Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko of corruption, Lutsenko denied that allegation and punched Chernovetsky in the face.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko
Chernovetsky sued him, and Kyiv prosecutors launched a criminal case against Lutsenko. In return, police, whose boss is Lutsenko, re-opened an old case
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has executed a customs contractor for corruption and three customs employees have also been sentenced to death, the judiciary said on Tuesday, a rare use of capital punishment for economic crimes in the country. Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said he did not know whether it was the first time an execution for such crimes was carried out in the Islamic Republic, whose leaders have vowed to root out graft. It was the latest sign of Iran getting increasingly tough on corruption in the world's fourth-largest oil producer. Jamshidi told reporters that three customs employees at Tehran's Mehrabad airport and one contractor were sentenced to death for "office corruption and other economic crimes" but did not give details. "The execution sentence for one of them has been carried out," he said, adding the three others had appealed for their sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment and that this was being studied by the judiciary aut
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has made combating corruption and strengthening the rule of law central elements in her government’s policy. She is apparently starting at the highest levels of the government.
Leonid Chernovetsky (L) and Yuriy Lutsenko.
The issue of the lack of action against corruption led to a physical showdown on January 18 in the presidential
AFRIQUE :
Des réserves de pétrole huilent les rouages de la corruption
Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, 3 oct (IPS) - La corruption est en train de coûter à l'industrie pétrolière de l'Afrique des milliards de dollars par an, déclare Peter Eigen, fondate[…]
KIEV, Ukraine -- Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's new anti-corruption Prime Minister, on Friday ordered her government to overhaul its preparation plan as co-host for the Euro 2012 football tournament.
PM Yulia Tymoshenko at a cabinet meeting.
Ukraine and Poland won joint rights to hold the event in March, but since then the Ukrainian government has struggled even to begin an estimated 42 billion
Le conseiller indépendant David Johnston doit remettre au gouvernement canadien son rapport sur le mandat à donner à la commission d’enquête publique sur l’affaire Mulroney-Schreiber, le 11 janvier prochain.
Après avoir annoncé ne plus vouloir parler à l’ex-PM Mulroney, tant que l’affaire Mulroney-Schreiber ne serait pas éclaircie, et face à Mulroney qui réclamait une enquête publique pour laver sa réputation, le PM Harper a finalement accepté de la créer et nomma Johnston, président de l’université de Waterloo, pour en définir les paramètres.
Depuis, le comité d’éthique de la Chambre des communes a invité et entendu messieurs Schreiber et Mulroney. Mulroney, malgré des explications bien détaillées sur les raisons qui l’ont motivé à accepter 300,000 $ en argent comptant, en est sorti avec une réputation ternie.
Les sessions du comité ne furent que des scènes d’une mascarade qui ne mènera nulle part. Et ce ne peu
Jacob Zuma, recently elected leader of the African National Congress, continued insisting graft charges against him stem from his opponents who wish to prevent his election next year to the presidency of South Africa. A trade union official who supports him warned of violence, but Zuma urged his followers not to go in that direction. [...]
Last week, the African National Congress selected Jacob Zuma as its leader, which ordinarily, given the party’s domination of South African politics, is a first step toward becoming president of the nation. However, South African prosecutors yesterday levied new charges of money laundering, tax evasion, and racketeering to go along with and earlier indictment of [...]
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Four former Iranian officials, including one who held a key Oil Ministry position and an ex-customs director, have been jailed for up to five years for taking bribes and embezzlement, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said those convicted also included a former sales executive of state-owned Iran Khodro, the region's biggest car maker, and a former state bank employee, but declined to give their names. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005 promising to root out corruption. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has previously also ordered a crackdown on graft in the world's fourth-largest oil producer. Jamshidi said a former director of an Oil Ministry unit for legal affairs involved in contracts was jailed for four years and fined a total of around $700,000, both in rials and U.S. dollars, on charges of accepting bribes and commissions. A former deputy head of a Bank Mellat branch was sentenced to five years
KIEV, Ukraine -- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday declared a crusade against corruption in Ukraine and promised „no amnesty” to those found guilty of embezzlement or illegal transactions that had benefited them.
Tymoshenko, in her first televised address to the nation since her appointment as premier on Tuesday, pledged to deliver on all her campaign promises - from canceling Ukraine
The possibility of “imminent” corruption charges being filed against Jacob Zuma, who was elected head of the African National Congress, raised new issues concerning his bid for the presidency of South Africa. His financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, is already serving a 15 year sentence after being found guilty of taking bribes. Initial corruption charges against [...]
La lutte contre la corruption: une priorité pour le Conseil de l'Europe
Depuis l’antiquité, la corruption est l’un des maux de société les plus répandus et les plus insidieux. Lorsqu’elle implique des agents publics[…]
La lutte contre la corruption
La corruption touche tous les pays, qu’ils soient développés ou non. Elle constitue un frein au développement et les populations les plus pauvres sont les premières touchées par
ses conséquences. Selon une étude de la Banq[…]
Philippine troops and SWAT teams stormed a five-star hotel that dissident military officers had commandeered after walking out of a coup trial. The military officers have insisted their aim is to end the blatant corruption of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s government. They want her to resign in order to create a government that is both [...]
Exclusive to the Nintendo Wii Console, Metroid Prime 3 sees the Galactic Federation's network of computers suddenly & completely corrupted by a virus. The Federation contracts a team of bounty hunters, including Metroid Prime hero Samus Aran, to locate & neutralize the perpetrators... A story-driven, first-person shooter with plenty of puzzle-solving, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is exactly the kind of experience that hardcore gamers have been waiting for on the Nintendo Wii Console. Features such as the Grapple Lasso, Visors & Morph Ball, will be familiar to fans of the series, but there's also many new surprises, including Hypermode &, for the first time, control of Samus' ship...Visit the official Metroid Prime 3 siteMetroid Prime 3: Corruption for Wii
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s new governor-elect, Bobby Jindal, vowed to clean up corruption and embraced his image as a bureaucratic, methodical leader on Sunday, one day after voters here made history by electing the first Indian-American governor in the USA.
“If I go down as one of the more boring but effective governors, I’ll take that [...]
NEW ORLEANS — The voice on the radio assumes the tone of a high school principal: “Public service is not about stealing from the people — it’s about giving to the people.”
The voice belongs to James Bernazzani, the FBI’s special agent in charge in New Orleans. He, along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office here and [...]
There is growing furor in the Philippines about endemic corruption which is rapidly eroding public confidence in the nation’s institutions. Speaker of the House Jose de Venecio called upon President Gloria Macapagal to lead a “moral revolution” before there is a complete collapse of public trust. He cited the enormous influence possessed by drug and [...]
Dr. Malay ChaudhuriFounder - Director, IIPM & Author of the Best Seller ‘The Great Indian Dream217 years ago, in 1789, French Revolutionaries revolted against injustice of feudalism and called for Liberty, Fraternity & Equality. This resulted in a kind of socio-economic equality in Europe, which prevails till date. As an example, if engineers are paid USD 45,000 USD 60,000 per month, workers, even sweepers, are also paid around USD 15,000 USD 20,000 per month; all of them enjoy life of social dignity and live without any discrimination and exercise their democratic rights backed by universal literacy and upheld by truly democratic parties which practice inner-party democracy. The difference in income is thus in a ratio of 3:1. This is also what it should be in an ideal society (see Appendix on Theory of Production of Skills by means of skills in The Great Indian Dream, by Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri). This is not so in India. Here, graduates from IIMs and IITs are
http://www.transparence-france.org/Rapport%20mondial%202007_resume.pdf
Des indications sur les publications relatives à la corruption sont également accessibles sur d'autres sites, tels que ceux de l'OCDE (www.oecd.org) ou de la Banque Mondiale
(www.worldbank.org),
de Géoscopie […]
Un chantier juridique à hauts risques politiques
LE MONDE ECONOMIE | 10.09.07 | 11h51 • Mis à jour le 10.09.07 | 15h49
evant les chefs d'entreprise réunis à l'université d'été du Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef), jeudi 3[…]
Author: Ian SeniorPaperback: 210 pagesPublisher: Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) (12 Jun 2006)Language: EnglishISBN: 0255365713There is general agreement that the world would be a better place without corruption, but there is less general understanding of precisely what constitutes corruption. In this book, Ian Senior carefully defines corruption and finds that it is all too prevalent, not just in developing countries, but also within the institutions of governments within the EU. The book analyses the causes and consequences of corruption. There are many social and moral problems created by corruption, but from an economic perspective it has to be regarded as a serious impediment to the proper functioning of a market economy. It also has the effect of redistributing wealth away from the poor towards the better-off and towards employees of government. Ian Senior proposes a zero tolerance approach to rooting out corruption. In particular, we should not give aid
I have to say that I’m not in much of a July 4th kind of mood this morning. Usually, this is the day each year when I enjoy waking up early and listening to a recitation of the Declaration of Independence that National Public Radio so ably produces annually. Hearing the words by which our founding fathers declared themselves separate and free from the tyranny of the British King George III tends to root a person in the revolutionary democratic idea that formed this nation.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to see that idea much in evidence today in America. People are especially demoralized now, by seeing that just before the holiday, the President chose to cover his Administration’s backside by commuting the jail sentence of Vice President Cheney’s right–hand man— before he had to think of either serving his sentence or turning state’s evidence on his former employer. Demoralization is an important tool in the arsenal this Administration employs to retain power in the face o
La corruption, un fléau à éradiquer
La Direction du développement et le la coopération (DDC) veut lutter contre la corruption, un fléau qui menace le développement. Mardi, elle a présenté sa stratégie.
L'idée est d'aider les pays en ...
MURTHA CORRUPTIONJohnstown, Pennsylvania's "Showcase for Commerce" started in 1991 as a small trade show for area businesses, but since then it has grown into one of the U.S. defense industry's most important events of the year. Many big names are represented - Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin all have booths within a few yards of each other - but the star of the show is John P. Murtha, Johnstown's U.S. congressman, who attends every year and visits every exhibit booth. An entourage follows Murtha around the crowded arena, including a photographer, several senior staff members, and one assistant whose sole job appears to be gathering promotional materials and taking copious notes. At each booth, powerful defense-industry executives greet him with smiles and handshakes, eager to show him their latest prototypes and proposals.The showcase is symbolic of Johnstown's transformation from a hard-hit former steel town into, as one contractor who attended this year's showca
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