Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI)

FYR OF MACEDONIA: YOUNG PEOPLE WANT A FUTURE WITHOUT CORRUPTION Fighting corruption is a challenge for all generations. For adults it is expressed in the need to build a society in which all will live well and have equal job opportunities and progress. "For the youth it is a challenge to understand and realize the problem and evil it is that threatens their future," stated Professor Slagjana Taseva, President of Transparency-Zero Corruption. She added that this pilot activity, based on the essays from Macedonian high schools regarding the topic: "Corruption is not my future", is the first and only of its kind... Transparency International                09/03/2010

FORMER BULGARIAN DEFENCE MINISTER CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION Prosecutors filed corruption charges Thursday (March 4th) against former Defence Minister Nikolay Tsonev for allegedly signing contracts that cost the state millions. According to the indictment, Bulgaria overpaid for goods by about 4m euros. Tsonev is the second minister to be indicted from the former Bulgarian Socialist Party government, which lost to the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria in general elections in 2009. Last week, ex-Labour and Welfare Minister Emilia Maslarova was charged with misappropriating 5.5m euros in state funds... SETimes.com              05/03/2010   ROMANIAN MAYOR ARRESTED FOR BRIBERY Craiova Mayor Antonie Solomon was arrested on Wednesday (March 3rd) on forgery and accepting bribes. Local media reported that Solomon allegedly took a 50,000 euro bribe from a local businessman for a permit to build a supermarket. Solomon says he issued it in accordance with the law... SETimes.com             04/03/2010   GLOBAL INTEGRITY 2009 DROPS SERBIA FROM ITS LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH HIGH CORRUPTION Global Integrity, a non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, has removed Serbia from its list of countries with high levels of corruption. Recent amendments to a law on financing political parties stipulate mandatory disclosure of donations to candidates in elections, which allows the public a better insight into financing for individuals and parties, Global said in its 2009 report. However, Serbia was still awarded a weak grade... Balkans.com               25/02/2010   ANTI-CORRUPTION CENTRE STARTS CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS ON TRANSACTIONS MADE FROM CARD OF MOLDOVAN EX-PRESIDENT'S SON The Criminal Prosecution General Department (DGUP) at the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC) on 24 February 2010 ordered the starting of criminal proceedings against the Moldovan ex-president's son, Oleg Voronin. The offence is provided for in the articles, "money laundering in particularly large size" and "fiscal evasion of enterprises, institutions and organisations, which led to the non-payment of taxes in particularly large size" of the Criminal Code, in the case of the money spend from the personal card issued to Oleg Voronin. The deputy head of the concerned department, Bogdan Zumbreanu, made the statement at a news conference today... Moldpres News Agency               25/02/2010   ACTORI EUROPENI ASSOCIATION LAUNCHED PORTAL DEVOTED TO ANTI-CORRUPTION COMBAT The Actori Europeni (European Actors) Association on Friday presented the project 'Involvement and Simplification. Anti-corruption Online Tools' financed by PHARE, aimed at developing an online platform for preventing and combating corruption with the help of the citizens. Journalist Dan Tapalaga, on Friday explained, at the European Institute of Romania headquarters, that transparency was the key word in fighting corruption, through making players get more involved in anti-corruption fight... Financiarul.ro              20/02/2010

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