[Qui-deu-a-qui] ¿Cómo lucha el BM contra la corrupción?

[iolanda.fresnillo en debtwatch.org]

Os reenvio un artículo que acabo de recibir, en inglés, sobre la  
estrategia del BM en la lucha contra la corrupción.

En él se explica que el BM ha ofrecido AMNISTIA a todas aquellas  
empresas que admitan haber cometido actos de corrupción en proyectos  
financiados por el Banco. El BM ofrece anonimato y confidencialidad  
total sobre esa información. El objetivo, dicen, es realizar un  
estudio para prevenir futuros casos de corrupción :-)

Las empresas que se nieguen a colaborar y sean descubiertas en casos  
de corrupción seran puestas en una lista negra y no podran colaborar  
en proyectos del BM en el futuro (actualmente unas 300 empresas se  
encuentran en ésta situación).

¿No será que el BM pretende cubrir las espaldas a las empresas  
transnacionales para que estas sigan beneficiandose de los proyectos  
que financia esta institución?

Iolanda

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  Subject: [euroIFInet] World Bank to offer amnesty over corruption in  
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World Bank to offer amnesty over corruption in its projects
By Krishna Guha in Washington

Published: August 7 2006 03:00 | Last updated: August 7 2006 03:00

The World Bank is to offer a conditional amnesty to companies that
voluntarily admit to corrupt dealings on bank-funded projects.

The move forms part of a broad anti-corruption drive under the bank's
new president, Paul Wolfowitz, the former US deputy defence secretary.


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Under the terms of the new Voluntary Disclosure Programme, which was
approved by the bank's executive board last week, the bank will not take
action against companies that come forward with information about past
wrongdoing and will allow them to continue to take part in projects.

Only part of the information will be shared with staff, management and
member countries, in order to preserve anonymity.

Individuals and non-governmental organisations will also be able to seek
amnesty in this way.

The programme covers "fraudulent, corrupt, collusive or coercive acts in
bank-financed or supported contracts".

In return, the companies would agree to investigate thoroughly their
past dealings with the bank, share this information with the bank, and
appoint a bank-approved independent monitor to track internal compliance
for the following three years. The companies will not be required to pay
any fine, but will have to pay the cost of investigation and compliance.


Companies that fail to come clean voluntarily but are caught by bank
investigations will continue to be debarred from participation in future
projects.

About 330 companies are currently barred in this way.

The programme will be run by the bank's department of institutional
integrity, run by Susan Rich Folson, a former US Republican party
activist appointed to the post by Mr Wolfowitz.

Mr Wolfowitz said the scheme would "help the bank further its
anti-corruption agenda in a practical and cost-effective way". He said
it would "prevent and deter corruption in our projects and contracts"
and encourage companies to "adopt business practices that will
contribute to a more competitive and healthy private sector in the
countries we serve". Bank officials believe that information provided by
companies taking part in the amnesty scheme will expose patterns of
corruption in bank projects and reveal the identity of other corrupt
participants.

Such information will also help the bank to modify the design and
implementation of projects in ways that minimise the scope for
corruption, they argue.

An official said that if disclosures by a company taking part in the
amnesty scheme pointed to corrupt behaviour by a member of the bank's
staff, the department of institutional integrity would investigate to
seek corroborating evidence.

However, the bank would not begin disciplinary proceedings against any
staff member on the basis of disclosures from the scheme alone, as this
would reveal the identity of the company involved.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006

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