Sentences with phrase «in corrupt activities»

Hopefully, we will see this issue introduced in the debates over Bill 62, and the government will address the presumption of innocence with respect to professionals implicated in corrupt activities in the Bill itself or related regulations.

More specifically, Acemoglu adds, some investors thought politically connected firms would be «less capable of capturing rents,» the revenues flowing from noncompetitive business activity, and would have «less room for engaging in these corrupt activities.»

The Gender Minister alleged that Bugri Naabu engages in corrupt activities by collecting monies, goats, cows and other things from people with a promise of getting them the School Feeding programme job.

«Abu Jinapor and Asenso - Boakye are not the only two alleged to be involved in corrupt activities at the presidency, there are many others as well.

The undercover Journalist in a two - year investigative piece has established the complicity of some 34 Judges who have been found neck deep in corrupt activities in cases they presided over.

In the wake of the Bribery Bill published earlier this year, the UK enforcement authorities, and in particular the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), are demonstrating that enforcement against individuals and companies involved in corrupt activity is high on their list of priorities.

And even if you perceive a local practice of engaging in corrupt activity, you have to make sure you comply with the law, not the custom.»

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the City of London Police Overseas Corruption Unit have taken significant steps to identify individuals and companies involved in corrupt activity and bring them before the UK courts.

Not exact matches

Similarily, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a release, «Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.»

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

To me, both illustrate how completely such fundamental thinking corrupts our minds and results in polluting what is in actuality a perfectly normal and healthy activity.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said there is already enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Governor Cuomo, who said there already is enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

In other words, commercial activity and markets themselves were viewed as corrupting of citizens in their relationships with each other by changing their practices, perspectives and moreIn other words, commercial activity and markets themselves were viewed as corrupting of citizens in their relationships with each other by changing their practices, perspectives and morein their relationships with each other by changing their practices, perspectives and mores.

In addition to any possible illegal activities in the US, News Corporation and / or its executives might also face civil and criminal liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices AcIn addition to any possible illegal activities in the US, News Corporation and / or its executives might also face civil and criminal liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Acin the US, News Corporation and / or its executives might also face civil and criminal liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Some police officers have so far been arrested and prosecuted for engaging in some unlawful and corrupt activities.

Her opponent was Zoran Janković, who has been pushing for a return to the Positive Slovenia throne after temporarily stepping down a year ago over findings by the anti-corruption commission that suggested he was involved in possible corrupt activity.

As I explained in that article, the cumulative effect of going round the world proclaiming that your nation was corrupt, large sums of money were missing from the country's treasury and declaring that your state's treasury was now «empty»; frittering away scarce foreign reserves through an over-valued currency; absence of policy and substantive governance; and drastically reduced investment, would be to put the economy out of activity!

According to the organization, «The orders sought are necessary to know exactly what happened to the Paris Club refunds, and the release of the information including on a dedicated website would be deemed incidental to the power of the federal government to achieve effective implementation of anticorruption legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act, which is applicable in all states of the federation, and will not amount to interference with activities within the states involved.»

Nothing makes this more obvious than the APC ward congresses and Local government elections held last week in which there were accusations of vote buying, harassment, violence, parallel congresses, anti-party activities, and corrupt practices.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said there already is enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

Our survey in 2011 of public perceptions of the most corrupt sections of British public life revealed that the revolving door comes a close second in the public's ranking of potentially corrupt activities.

One of the counts reads: «That you Dr. Raymond Dokpesi and Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited between October 2014 and March 19, 2015 in Abuja, conducted procurement fraud by means of fraudulent and corrupt act, to wit: receipt of payment into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc of public funds in the sum of N2, 120,000,000 from the account of the office of National Security Adviser (NSA) with the Central Bank of Nigeria for the funding of media activities for the 2015 presidential election campaign for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 58 (4)(b) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) & (7) of the same Act».

Obiang and members of his family have long faced investigations of money laundering, and Exxon's activity in the coastal African nation has raised questions of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.

In addition to spending more than expected, corrupt states spent more on government activities and services that are susceptible to manipulation for private gain and less on other activities.

So corrupt and ideologically bankrupt are the Republicans (and in some cases the Democrats), so passive is the press, and so fat and ignorant is the public that the only thing we seem able to do at this point as a nation is sell lies that lead to useless and even harmful activities like proposals to increase offshore drilling.

Despite a steady flow of scientific challenges to its role in weather and climate, coupled with exposure of corrupt activities, it continues to dominate global energy and environmental policies.

Now, Greenpeace Australia has uncovered new information on Adani's corrupt history in India (PDF), including a bribery scandal, illegal ore exports, illegal construction on private land, concealing and falsifying facts in application processes, and activity without environmental clearances.

This version of the spreadsheet does that and more: it also ignores 1950 - 1990 on the ground that the data being used to estimate SAW has been too badly corrupted by human activities in general (as opposed to CO2 alone) to be trusted.

SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is implicated once again in corrupt Azeri activities, the paragon of which is the recent Azerbaijani Laundromat scheme, cited in the Council's own report.»

For those of you in Rio Linda, it means that the public will not believe human activity causes global warming if they learn about problems the IPCC can't explain, and if Gore's big accusation that skeptic scientists are corrupt can't be proven.

In 2015, IGES, with Shukla as its president, fell under congressional investigation for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by «requesting a RICO («racketeering influenced and corrupt organization») investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

In its own statement, Eni «reaffirmed its confidence that the company was not involved in alleged corrupt activities in relation to the transaction», following «independent advisors» investigations» and expressed «its full confidence that chief executive Claudio Descalzi was not involved in the alleged illegal conduct»In its own statement, Eni «reaffirmed its confidence that the company was not involved in alleged corrupt activities in relation to the transaction», following «independent advisors» investigations» and expressed «its full confidence that chief executive Claudio Descalzi was not involved in the alleged illegal conduct»in alleged corrupt activities in relation to the transaction», following «independent advisors» investigations» and expressed «its full confidence that chief executive Claudio Descalzi was not involved in the alleged illegal conduct»in relation to the transaction», following «independent advisors» investigations» and expressed «its full confidence that chief executive Claudio Descalzi was not involved in the alleged illegal conduct»in the alleged illegal conduct».

Defended a national mortgage company charged with multimillion - dollar violations of Ohio's RICO (Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity), theft, money - laundering and record - tampering statutes, resulting in dismissal of all state charges within 10 days of indictment.

It may seem undesirable, even distasteful, to permit a person who has been implicated in corruption to continue to act in her or his professional capacity without some sort of censure, and certainly the government and professional regulatory bodies must strike a balance between protecting a professional's right to due process and protecting the public from corrupt activity.

This question is especially interesting in Korea, where bitcoin has suddenly become so popular South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak - yeon warned it might corrupt Korean youth by leading them to «illegal activities.»