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19 Nov 17 : 15 | Iraq Responds to Criticism by Announcing Conviction of 86 LOW LEVEL... The Iraqi government seems to be reacting to criticism that they are easy on corruption by announcing that they have prosecuted 300 officials with corruption and handed down 86 convictions. But, rather than convicting Ministry leaders who are KNOWN to have skimmed millions, the convictions are of... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
18 Nov 01 : 36 | Iraq Government Dismisses Many Ministry Inspector Generals Another blow against anti-corruption efforts in Iraq took place recently as the Iraqi government has supposedly fired between 7 to 17 inspector generals (IG's) set up by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in early 2004 for each of Iraq's 30 Ministries. See the article at the link below.I... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
19 Nov 05 : 22 | Former Iraqi Anti-Corruption Head Speaks at Rutgers University A student newspaper just issued a long story based upon a recent speech by the former head of the Iraqi anti-corruption agency CPI (Commission of Public Integrity). It gives some details we haven't heard before. Click the link below.Disturbing quotes:"In western countries, they steal maybe ten... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
18 Nov 20 : 13 | Washington Post Establishes Government Inc. Blog on Federal Government... Woo Hoo - Here is a newspaper that actually starts to use its fourth estate privileges and bully pulpit to monitor how government spends money. That is different than just supporting what the Democrats want to spend. It indicates maybe they and other newspapers are starting they need to spend... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
17 Nov 03 : 19 | US State Dept. Fails to Detect "Widespread Fraud" in African Refugee... It seems the US State Dept has a "P-3" refugee program to admit thousands of African Nation refugees ( primarily Somalia, Ethiopia and Liberia - maybe Muslim nations?) to the US if they are "related" to existing "legal" US residents. Over 36,000 P-3 refugees were admitted to the US since October... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
13 Nov 00 : 51 | New Federal Rule Requires Contractors to Report Overcharges, Bribes &... Finally, the Feds seem to start getting it in reducing fraud and corruption in Federal spending like procurement programs and construction. They just issued a new "rule" revision that specifically mandates that Contractors must report violations of contract and other oversight provisions. This... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
12 Nov 01 : 08 | Past Taiwan President Jailed in Corruption Probe So it seems if you are a former country President, and your wife electronically transfers $20-million out of the country, people think you are corrupt. Well, that happened to the former Taiwanese President, who apparently was elected on an anti-corruption platform, and maybe he went to the... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
29 Oct 14 : 27 | Iraq Water Treatment Contract is "Plagued with Problems" - SIGIR The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) just issued a site inspection report of a 3 year water treatment system contract in Fallujah and said it is late, costs more and doesn't serve as many people as planned. Kudos to SIGIR for going into a conflict zone like this to get... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
01 Nov 22 : 31 | SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) Issues... The new Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction issued his first status notice.We have mentioned the head IG, MJ (ret) Arnie Fields before, so it seems they did actually get their funds and are starting up.vjfrom Associated PressAuditor cites Afghanistan rebuilding challenges By... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
31 Oct 15 : 19 | Defense Inspector General Not Protecting Whistleblowers We wrote earlier about the Dept. of Defense getting a new leader for the Inspector General's office. The prior IG left after only one year, and after disclosing an audit report to a House Investigations Committee that pretty much said the military mis-managed many of the contracts in Iraq.Well,... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
25 Oct 18 : 28 | Iraqis Learning How to Spend that Excess $79-billion During my 2004-2006 stay in Iraq, we found that the Iraqis didn't have any idea how to "manage" programs or even use time management skills. Twice there were efforts to obtain funding for establishing a training program for Iraqi Government "managers" working in the Ministries, but we couldn't get... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
26 Oct 01 : 56 | Dubai Cracking Down on Corruption with String of Arrests This is a little article that appeared in a Middle East website, but indicates some countries like Dubai ARE cracking down on Corruption, which is a good thing. They actually are arresting people. Dubai is very aware of the negative effect of corruption on their image as a "place to be" and "do... Source : Corruption In Iraq & World |
