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The arrest of Kanatbek Isayev might serve as a way to discredit one of the election frontrunners.
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The arrest of Kanatbek Isayev might serve as a way to discredit one of the election frontrunners.
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The former Georgian president calls supporters to rally in Kyiv against corruption and the arrogance of politicians.
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Mogul Andrej Babis accuses political rivals of setting him up to derail his swift rise to power.
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U.S. authorities have so far not responded to Kyiv’s request for cooperation, Ukrainian prosecutor complains.
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Rolls-Royce has already paid $800 million to settle allegations of corruption in several countries.
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It has taken almost a decade, much of it filled with intrigue, to settle outstanding questions over the estate of a multibillionaire once considered the wealthiest man in Georgia.
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The former top Putin aide was central in the arrest of the former economy minister, but has not appeared to testify at his trial.
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Departure of chief judge raises more questions about the impartiality of the mission.
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In Poland it is commonly believed, that when the state apparatus organises a procedure to choose a candidate from many applicants, that will be granted a public service, and from him will the decision-making process depend in a certain range, corruption is appearing. In most cases this action is called „buying votes”. The character of financial benefits in exchange for voting in a certain way makes it dependable on finding a person, that will find such benefits a sufficient reason to sacrifice their right to vote independently. However, it is difficult to control whether the person accepting such an offer votes in the agreed way. It comes as a result of the fact that to acquire benefits they only need to affirm it verbally, after leaving the electoral premises. Accordingly „buying votes” requires the possession of suitable amounts of „available resources”. Extraordinary attention is deserved by the fact, that very often in such practice outer business entities are involved, allowing the candidate the usage of their resources in „illegal election process”. In the long term these entities expect political benefits in exchange for the candidate support. This way of supporting is strictly connected to „buying the amount of votes needed to win”. Such action definitively is an outcome of the fact that the passive electoral right user does not always have the required amount of financial resources to „buy votes” himself. Beyond the reasonable doubt this phenomenon is considered „a pathological phenomenon” and because of that, the unacceptability of such behaviors is supported by the legislator with criminal law, however, as the media reports show, it is still a very common process
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In the present article a legal characteristic of the act of bribery is made. The bribery may be considered as a particular kind of a deal revealing civil and criminal legal effects. Besides, bribery may be considered as a particular form of common criminal activity. All these particularities complicate in addition the nature of the socio-legal act known as bribery.
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In many sectors of the economy, public procurement is crucial for the proper functioning of the overall market competition. Public procurement is particularly threatened by the emergence of cartels in the form of bid rigging. Bid rigging occurs when businesses, instead of competing with each other, agree to offer higher prices or lower quality of goods or services subject to the procedure for procurement or distribute among themselves bids in order to prevent, restrict or distort competition for a specific bid.
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Turkey has had a fairly long tradition of regular, competitive polls and multi-party democracy begun in 1946. However, in the last decade, with the consolidation of Justice and Development Party’s (AKP, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) grip on power, there has been a growing concern about the integrity of elections in this state. In subsequent elections the ruling party resorted to a plethora of means inhibiting their competitiveness. Thus, the article seeks to survey the extent of election malpractices in Turkey with the focus on manipulation of vote choice as most disturbing group of electoral malpractices and, without prejudging, to address the fundamental questions about whether elections in Turkey, notwithstanding the irregularities, still meet democratic, international standards, or whether Turkey is sliding into electoral autocracy.
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In the implementation of fiscal policy, public authority used many kinds of fiscal instruments. Except direct expenditures in achieving the policy objectives, many countries use tax preferences, tax reliefs which are called tax expenditures. Those instruments seem to be very similar, so they are often considered to be substitutes. However, because of their specificity, TEs seem to be less transparent and often beyond social control. Therefore, in implementing the principle of transparency of fiscal policy, it seems necessary to compare current instruments with their current control.
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The rules on limiting the use of State aid apply to all EU members. The purpose of the State aid regime is to prevent governments from granting financial privileges to beneficiaries in a way that may distort competition. Types of State aid can be distinguished according to different criteria. For the purposes of this Article, the form in which the aid is granted is of interest. If we look at the four State aid elements in the context of taxation, it can be seen that it is surprisingly easy for the tax measure to meet the criteria governing State aid. The granting of preferential tax regimes to individual undertakings does not constitute a real public resource, whether granted directly or not by the beneficiary. But the very fact that the state renounces a certain income is deprivation of a public resource that could be distributed and used, for example in a general way. The lack of a real transfer of funds from the State to the beneficiary does not mean that the tax concessions do not meet the criteria that a public support must meet in order to qualify as State aid.
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Review of: Nebojša Majstorović "Korupcija: uzrok, ekspanzija i interpretacija"; Academic Book, Novi Sad, 2012, 106p. by: Dragana Mitrić Aćimović
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In the article an analysis of the impact of corruption, both administrative and state capture, on the tax structure is carried out. The authors established a negative correlation between the degree of corruption and the height of the effective tax burden, while isolating a simultaneous directly proportional impact of the nominal tax burden (which could reflect state intervention – the main corruption factor) on the scope of corruption. The effects of corruption on the decrease of individual taxes’ share in GDP are diversified, with impact on direct taxes as a whole being more observable. The mode of tax assessment significantly determines exposure of certain tax to the administrative corruption: it is generally larger in case of taxes assessed by the decision of the competent tax officials who are carrying out both assessment and audit, while in the case of self-assessment and withholding they just perform audits implying limited exposure to corruption. Corruptive state capture is present in the case of taxes which are important for influential corruptors. That is why in Serbia laws preventing taxation of capital gains or heavier taxation of dividends and other income paid to non-residents located in the tax havens were adopted, while by-laws which should have enabled implementation of prescribed lump sum taxation based on external signs of wealth have not been enacted. The authors concluded that the anti-corruption strategy should rely on the increasing role of self-assessment, which could reduce the room for administrative corruption. Unclear and imprecise formulations of the tax norms facilitate corruption, because they create room for arbitrariness in interpretation and implementation of the laws and by-laws. It is therefore necessary to surpress discretion, simplify tax procedure and diminish the number of tax reliefs.
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The paper analyses the regulations of medieval Serbian law that were directed against various forms of behavior that could be considered as corruption. The majority of these rules is to be found in church law, mostly in the canon regulations of the Nomocanon of Saint Sava and the Abbreviated Syntagma of Matthew Blastares – both of which acts were comprised of legal transplants from the Rhomean (Byzantine) Empire, containing mostly canon rules of the holy fathers of the Church and of the Ecumenical Councils – and are mostly (though not exclusively) directed against the sin of simony. Still, Serbian rulers have also brought regulations on this subject, expanding upon the canon law regulations in their charters and Dushan’s Code. Regulations against corruption of the secular officials are present no sooner than Dushan’s codification. They are mostly focused on punishing the corruption of judges and court officials (pristavs), but being unsusceptible to bribery is also pointed out by the law as one of the necessary qualities that all government officials should possess.
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Gafur Rakhimov is under U.S. sanctions as a suspected kingpin of a Eurasian crime syndicate.
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Those willing and able to emulate the most despicable enemies of a free press are a dime a dozen.
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After war, Kosovo has made many changes in all dimensions of life in organizing the private and public life according to the progress that has been made, in Kosovo there are some occurrences that are fading the image of it . One of the occurrences that can be called as social syndrome is, corruption. With this modest work, author pretending to analyze the corruption in Kosovo that it is affecting in negative way in Interior and in Diplomatic Processes of Kosovo.
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