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Considering Labour's plan for a Covid corruption commissioner

Telles.eu

Labour announced at its conference last week it was considering creating a watchdog to deal with the allegations of corruption connected with Covid support schemes and contracts. It is simply impossible to design a 'distributed' debarment and exclusions system that will work well as the last 20 years or so have showed us within the EU.

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Advancements in Transparency and Integrity through Blockchain in Public Procurements

Public Contracting Institute

By leveraging blockchain’s capabilities, these entities can significantly mitigate corruption risks, streamline operations, and foster a more transparent procurement environment. Integrity Provides an immutable record, reducing fraud and corruption.

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Violations of Competition Law as Grounds for Setting Aside Arbitral Awards: Lessons from the Paris Court of Appeal in GBO v. CAI

Kluwer Arbitration

Facts The arbitration concerned an exclusive distribution agreement for footwear concluded between two companies, the French CAI and the German GBO. In 2017, CAI granted a license to GBO to use CAI’s trademarks, such as Disney, for the purpose of distributing CAI’s branded shoes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Misreporting of Tesla Safety Violations Highlight Narrow Parameters of SEC Whistleblower Program and Need for Employee Education

Whistleblower Network News

Krupski’s methodology of distributing information calls attention to the lack of public knowledge on whistleblower protections: current SEC definitions disqualify whistleblowers who report fraud to the media, other government agencies, foreign law enforcement, or a U.S. embassy before the SEC, considering them “involuntary.”

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Simplifying Backup in a Complex Data World

GovLoop

Distributed Data Makes Protection More Complex While hackers, ransomware and insider attacks are attention-grabbing threats, data is also vulnerable to more mundane risks — accidental deletions, misconfigurations, file corruption, failed hardware. And as that data becomes more distributed, it’s harder to protect.”

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Countdown to RIDW24: Legislative Changes Mark New Era In Debt Recovery In Saudi Arabia

Kluwer Arbitration

Whilst the distribution of funds from the estate will take time, these judgments at least bring certainty to creditors who have been chasing their debts for some 14 years. More recently, in May 2023, the Saudi Commercial Court of Appeal issued its final judgment regarding approved creditors in the liquidation of Maan AlSanea’s estate.

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Meet Central Asia’s master procurement monitors

Open Contracting Partnership

The team from Uzbekistan wrote an article examining contracts for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, a major international event held in the ancient city of Samarkand, and sent appeals to the Anti-Corruption Agency and the Antimonopoly Committee to verify the facts they discovered in the course of their research.