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Sunday, September 9, 2007 |
GAP: "The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is releasing a review (pdf) of the World Bank's Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) and its practices from 2005 - 2007. INT investigates allegations of misconduct, fraud, and corruption at the Bank, and designs anti-corruption measures to safeguard Bank resources. The GAP report documents several immediate and long-term problems at INT, including:
- A conflict of interest for the department director, who is also counselor to the president of the Bank; her dual positions compromise her credibility and actions.
- Routine breaches of confidentiality during ongoing investigations between 2005 and 2007;
- A complex personal, professional and financial network of relationships among INT, the International Republican Institute, and Diligence, LLC, a corporate intelligence firm;
- INT's failure to comply with an authorized audit, which former Bank president Paul Wolfowitz suspended in March 2007;
- Suppression of a report prepared by an INT team that investigated corruption in three World Bank projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the report was suppressed for political reasons with the cooperation of the director of INT;
- Failure to investigate serious allegations of fraud in the Municipal Development Project in Yerevan, Armenia although evidence is documented and the fraud is both extensive and ongoing."
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© Copyright 2007 Hetty Litjens.
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