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Eddie’s accompanying flattery aside, I would normally trash such a letter, figuring it was a fraud or scam of some kind.
Even so, the scale and brazenness of the fraud were unprecedented, indicating Obasanjo’s desperation.
One characteristic of Swiss law is that it distinguishes between tax evasion and tax fraud.
Tax fraud, on the other hand, involves forging documents and thus much more criminality.
Tax fraud is a criminal offense in Switzerland.
The international implication is that Switzerland has traditionally offered international assistance in criminal tax cases that have elements of fraud, but not of evasion.
Indeed, not even people who are found guilty of fraud by OLAF and, in turn, dismissed from their functions can have access to – much less refute – the evidence against them.
Likewise, in Muslim countries, it is not unusual for engineering professors to denounce Darwin as a fraud, and many well-known doctors argue that modern technological and scientific developments are prefigured in the Koran.
Liu became so angry about being accused of fraud and denied the car that he climbed atop a high advertising billboard and threatened to jump as a show of innocence.
Thanks to his perseverance and the media's investigation, the fraud was laid bare.
Just last week, following allegations of massive fraud during the country’s recent presidential election, thousands of protesters marched on the presidential palace.
An attempt at a primary to choose Fatah candidates backfired, owing to fraud and the losers’ refusal to honor the results.
Indeed, most recent free-trade agreements require signatories to open up government procurement to one another’s firms, and the World Bank publishes the names of firms barred for fraud or corruption from bidding on Bank-financed projects.
The Regional Repercussions of Honduras’s Botched ElectionMEXICO CITY – In Honduras, stolen elections, followed by accusations of fraud, street demonstrations, and military repression, are business as usual.
For most of the nineteenth century and well into the Cold War era, re-election of a sitting president was generally prohibited in the great majority of Latin American countries, owing to a general fear of leaders remaining permanently in power, abetted by the prevalence of electoral fraud.
Permanence and fraud are, of course, the hallmarks of authoritarian governments everywhere.
Just hours before Thaksin returned to Bangkok, Thailand’s Election Commission convicted the speaker of the parliament’s lower house of fraud after he paid civil servants to campaign on behalf of the party.
The Great Leap Forward had aspects of a Ponzi scheme, an investment fraud which attempts to draw in successive rounds of investors through word-of-mouth tales of outsize returns.
Although many democracies are plagued by serious maladies – such as electoral gerrymandering, voter suppression, fraud and corruption, violations of the rule of law, and threats to judicial independence and press freedom – there is little agreement about which solutions should be pursued.
Their enemy is a global “corporatocracy” that has purchased governments and legislatures, created its own armed enforcers, engaged in systemic economic fraud, and plundered treasuries and ecosystems.
And, however one defines the creditworthiness of intellectual work, one thing is clear: reported cases of fraud are on the rise.
Sometimes fraud consists in plagiarism: the culprit takes credit for someone else’s work.
However, especially in the most competitive scientific fields, fraud often takes the form of forgery: the culprit fabricates data.
Whereas the inquisitorial model presumes that fraud is rampant, but often undetected, the accusatorial model adopts a less paranoid stance, presuming that researchers are innocent until proven otherwise.
The countervailing assumptions of the inquisitorial and accusatorial systems reflect the ambiguity of the concept of scientific fraud.
Indeed, by today’s standards, Galileo and Mendel committed fraud, since they likely massaged their data to fit a neat mathematical formula.
China knows that there is every reason to expect that restive Tibet, whose people have largely scorned the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama as a fraud, would not accept its chosen Dalai Lama.
But these efforts were conducive to fraud and delinquency, and thus spurred a wave of new financial crises – in Europe in 1992, in Asia in 1997, and in Russia in 1998 – as well as a recession in Europe and the United States in the early 2000’s.
One notably successful agency in this regard is the African Development Bank (AfDB), which has introduced an organization-wide whistle-blowing policy, an anti-corruption and fraud framework, and an office to investigate disclosures.
The FIFA SyndromeLONDON – The arrest of FIFA executives on a raft of fraud and corruption charges has been front-page news in recent days.
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