Tuesday,
June 24, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
This
Report focuses solely on Bribery obviously, since the
Do
I detect a bit of
And
perhaps a bit of pandering to the
Countries
often ignore bribery abroad
Deutsche
Welle -
June
25, 2008
The report said that using bribery to win contracts damages
free competition at the international level. That's also the view of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD has
taken a leading roll in the issue, monitoring bribery on both the national and
regional levels.
In
"If countries backslide, they undermine the efforts of
the other countries," he said.
Many countries of the 34 nations studied seemed to
lack a political will
to tackle the bribery issues, Dehmel said.
By contrast,
"National
security" no excuse
The report singled out
The company has been accused of giving more than 1 billion euros in illegal bribes to Saudi Prince Bandhar
bin Sultan and others in the 1980s. Bandar formerly served as a Saudi
ambassador to the
Wrongful payments were allegedly made to help secure the arms
deal known as al-Yamamah, or "the Dove," in
which Tornado fighter jets and other military hardware were sold to
Transparency said it worries that other countries will follow
suit and use a "national security loophole" to avoid bribery
investigations in the future.
Berlusconi
worries group
In its report Transparency noted that
The group was also concerned about a recent law passed
by conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's
government to suspend trials for crimes committed before mid-2002.
Berlusconi is not seen as an anti-corruption
champion, particularly given his own legal troubles. Berlusconi, along with
British tax lawyer David Mills, has been on trial since March last year for
allegedly paying Mills $600,000 in exchange for false testimonies in two
of his trials in the late 1990s.
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