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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Why it matters An overreliance on non-competitive procedures makes the procurement market highly vulnerable to corruption and inefficient public spending. The OECD recommends that non-competitive methods should account for 10-20% of the public procurement market. From a single source for failed competitive tenders, billion tenge 417.2

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SEC Sanctions Global Software Company SAP $100 Million for FCPA Violations

Whistleblower Network News

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a $100 million settlement with global software company SAP SE over charges of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). anti-corruption law that prohibits the payment of anything of value to foreign government officials in order to obtain a business advantage.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

These and other constraints under the model law are commendable anti-corruption measures, but may make it more difficult to accommodate emerging “green procurement” approaches. Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art. Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of.

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Thanks to Qui Tam Whistleblower, Physician Pays $1.8 Million in False Claims Act Case

Whistleblower Network News

Not only was the whistleblowers’ information key for resolving alleged misuse of Medicare Part B between 2014 and 2017, but they also assisted the settlement of “false claims to Medicare by billing for diagnostic imaging procedures” from 2014 to 2021. These acts went against the Stark Law, or the Physician Self-Referral Law.

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

However, the tribunal did find that Mongolia breached the fair and equitable treatment protection in the BIT by taking ownership of the gold, exporting it abroad for refining, and depositing it or its value in an unallocated account in England to increase the country’s currency reserves. In 2020, the mining sector accounted for 21.6%

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

However, as the pervasive abuses of direct awards under the emergency conditions generated by the covid pandemic evidenced in virtually all jurisdictions, dispensing with those requirements, checks and balances comes with a very high price tag for taxpayers in terms of corruption, favouritism, and wastage of public funds.

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Serious Irregularity for Failure to Consider a Limitation Defence: Lessons from Djanogly v Djanogly

Kluwer Arbitration

DL issued various informal rulings in 2014, known as Psak Din. As the proceedings progressed, however, the claim morphed into one against the Son to account for the money he removed from SAS. For this reason, the Father claimed that the Sin was accountable to him for these amounts.