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Armenia: World Bank and Corruption

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 @ 14:58 UTC

by Ben Paarmann

Countries:: Armenia
Topics:: Business, Protest

Despite promises to launch a full investigation into a corruption case, the World Bank has still not sent an investigation team to Armenia. Onnik Krikorian has the background to the story and laments the lack of attention given to these high-profile crimes. Maybe blogs can fill the information void?

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Onnik Krikorian

Just to point out that all the juicy facts relating to this story come from a whistle blowing blog set up by the British national who uncovered the corruption during a parliamentary commission study.

The original source is at:
http://better-not-wb-the-wb.blogspot.com/

# 2007-08-1 at 16:05 pm

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[...] Krikorian still has not heard back from the Armenian office of the World Bank concerning the allegations of corruption brought against the institution by a British national. Share [...]

# 2007-08-8 at 15:42 pm
Bruce Tasker

The Bank has responded, and the Whistleblower has commented on that response – at:
http://better-not-wb-the-wb.blogspot.com/2007/08/world-bank
-level-playing-field.html.

# 2007-08-11 at 7:49 am

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