Re: corruption in disaster recovery

Thanks Chloe

I am aware of TI, but when I looked  last time on their website
this stuff was not around, so it must have happened i the last
5 years or so perhaps, when I was busy  doing other things
:-)
will read with interest, and follow up

Cheers

PDM


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Chloe Stirk <Chloe.Stirk@devinit.org>wrote:

>  Hi Paola,
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> You may already be aware of this, but I understand Transparency
> International in Kenya lead TI’s global work on transparency in
> humanitarian aid. They’ve carried out research into the risk of corruption
> of various different forms of humanitarian intervention, and have produced
> a handbook to reducing the risk of corruption – available at
> http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/pub/handbook_of_good_practices_preventing_corruption_in_humanitarian_operations  –
> as part of their wider humanitarian aid integrity programme (
> http://www.tikenya.org/index.php/programmes/humanitarian-aid-integrity-programme
> )
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> *From:* paoladimaio10@gmail.com [mailto:paoladimaio10@gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Paola Di Maio
> *Sent:* 08 January 2014 12:54
> *To:* public-emergency@w3.org; iscramlist@iscram.org;
> crisiscommons@googlegroups.com; Gerhard Chroust
> *Subject:* corruption in disaster recovery
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> Cannot remember on which list systemic concerns came up in discussion
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> Basically, the corruption system is so strong that involves the highest
> public figures, and the rest just follow the money and do not complain
> about the lack of transparency. Thanks to serious systemic clean up efforts
> of the last twenty years,  we now have enough people in the system ready to
> blow the whistle
>
> quick note below for the record
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> is anyone else studying /researching the systemic deviation/corruption in
> emergency management and crisis response?
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> happy new year all
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> PDM
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> Corruption and Disaster Response: 4 Arrests in Aquila Earthquake Bribes Involved
> Deputy Mayor, public officials<http://global.factiva.com/redir/default.aspx?p=sta&ep=AE&an=CWRE000020140108ea180005l&fid=301096886&cat=a&aid=9ZZZ038900&ns=65&fn=content-wire&ft=g&vl=ev&jid=FSPc1e02828-efc7-4a53-a185-2d849ba406f9&OD=V2zBzMux_2F_2FQQlFf4iUV51GuiHXpsiFqPkv4VDylfo6KAxAddYwr9ZXKQ_3D_3D%7c2>
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> Content Wire, (SRU) Systemic Resilience Unit, Wednesday, 08 January 2014,
> 366 Words, Copyright © 2014 Content Wire (Document
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> More than 40 Police officers in Aquila, Italy hit by earthquake in April
> 2009 and where reconstruction has been slow due to lack of administrative
> transparency, have carried out searches and issued 4 arrest warrants, for
> crimes of false pretense, bribery, forgery and material and ideological
> embezzlement..
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> The operation called "Do ut des" or "Eagle Affair"(from the name of the
> city Aquila meaning Eagle) is being instructed by magistrates at the
> request of public prosecutors of L'Aquila Antoinette Picardi and David
> Mancini, and coordinated by the Attorney Fausto Cardella.
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> The operation, started in November 2012, The operation, started in
> November 2012, confirms the existence of a deeply corrupt system, according
> to which some entrepreneurs interested in the work for the
> post-earthquake reconstruction provided illegal donations in bundles of 500
> thousand Euros each (mazzette), bestowed to public officials in return for
> the award of contracts from September 2009 to July 2011
>
> The searches are focusing on professional and public administration
> networks where the projects and the funding of post-quake are managed.
> According to investigators, one of the officials involved would allocate to
> some companies engaged in the construction work of reconstruction,
> temporary housing units (Map) which would then be resold.
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> A total of 8 people under investigation for bribery and post- earthquake
> procurement including deputy mayor of L'Aquila, Roberto Riga, Pierluigi
> Tancredi, director of local health administration body ASL, at the time
> councilor delegate for the recovery and protection of the assets
> constituting the city's artistic heritage, Vladimiro Placido, a former city
> councilor for reconstruction of cultural heritage as well as Director of
> the Consortium of the cultural heritage of the Province of L'Aquila.
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> Through wiretaps and handling banking account investigators obtained a
> snapshot of the existence of an alleged system of bribes, in particular the
> work for the safety of damaged buildings. The crime is corruption, in which
> bribes were used by entrepreneurs to obtain the award of contracts.
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> Some suspects are accused of embezzlement for counterfeiting of the stock
> records, the sum of approximately € 1,268,000 relating to the payment of
> part of the work.
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