Tag Archives | Expo 2015

G20 anti-corruption meeting: progress, but without ambition

25 June 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Europe and Central Asia, G20, Politics and government, Private sector

The G20 is making progress in the fight against corruption. However for all the talk, the representatives of the world’s leading economies are not setting the bar high enough. From our point of view, unless the G20 mandates and enforces greater corporate transparency, corrupt public officials, gangsters, drug dealers and terrorists will continue to misuse […]

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Dirty Hands on Italy’s Expo

12 May 2014 in Access to information, Civil society, Impunity

On 1 March 1993, the former administrator of the Italian Communist Party, Primo Greganti was arrested for accepting a 621 million Lire (about USD390.000) bribe. A few months earlier, another high level politician from the Christian Democratic party, Gianstefano Frigerio, had admitted in court that he received bribes for his political party. These two men were […]

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