China is investigating the head of a high-profile state-backed fund in yet another attempt to target key figures responsible for shaping its chip policy and investments, Bloomberg reports. Ding Wenwu, general manager of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, is suspected of “serious disciplinary lapses and violation of the law,” the Central Commission for […]
Tag: Corruption
Brussels calls on Ukraine to speed up anti-corruption reforms
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today called on Ukraine to speed up its anti-corruption reforms, assuring that the country has the support of the Twenty-Seven “on the long road” to joining the European Union. Von der Leyen praised the reforms that have already been made and the institutions that have been put in […]
Ethn. Transparency Principle: OECD Positive Assessment for Greece in Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials
Published today, March 22, 2022, the evaluation report of Greece by the OECD on the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Corruption of Foreign Officials in International Business Transactions. The text of the report recognizes the efforts that our country has made in recent years at the institutional and organizational level for the […]
M. Voridis: The government is committed to the fight against corruption
The mechanisms and measures to strengthen the accountability and internal control procedures aimed at the efficient operation and good governance of the Local Government, were the subject of a conference entitled “Strengthening the governance system of local authorities”, organized by the Ministry of Interior, the Central Union of Greek Municipalities (KEDE) and the National Transparency […]
Council of Europe: Steps of progress against corruption in Greece but also the need for additional measures
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) highlights the steps that Greece has taken in preventing corruption in its assessment report on the country, but calls for additional measures. Among other things, the report cites the country’s progress in strengthening anti-corruption policy, in particular through the establishment of the National Transparency Authority. […]
M. Voridis: In the public consultation the s / n for the fight against corruption
The draft law entitled “National Strategic Plan for Combating Corruption, provisions for the completion of the transfer of forest services to the Ministry of Environment and Energy, provisions for the implementation of the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan ‘Greece 2.0’ and other urgent provisions are in public consultation. “poses the Minister of Interior, Makis Voridis. […]
The judge prosecutes Rodrigo Rato for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax avoidance
The magistrate has issued the order for transformation, which opens the deadline for the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office to present the indictment in which they specify what convictions are requested for Rato The Madrid judge investigating Rodrigo Rato has closed the investigation phase and considers that the former vice president […]
Three accused of defrauding in subsidized training courses in Galicia were acquitted
The so-called Operation Qatedra, in which the Tax Agency, the Civil Guard and the Prosecutor’s Office investigated in Pontevedra as of 2015 a alleged grant fraud intended for training courses, has ended in acquittal. Three people were tried for continuing documentary falsification in official documents and belonging to a criminal group and the court has […]
They again forgive the Generalitat a debt of the IBI of the Barcelona Olympic Channel ’92, whose management is investigated by a judge
The Castelldefels Town Hall (Barcelona) has once again condoned the Govern a debt of Real Estate Tax (IBI) for the Canal OlaÂmpico, located in the coastal town. The Generalitat is the owner of the facility built for the Barcelona Olympic Games, but it still has not been transferred to the local administration 28 years later. […]
The inspection of the Bank of Spain questions Bankia’s sentence: “Mysteries remain”
The board of directors of the Association of Inspectors of the Bank of Spain questions the ruling of the National Court that acquits the defendants in the so-called Bankia case of fraud and accounting falsification. In a letter to his associates to which this newspaper has had access, he ironizes that, in view of the […]