Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Corruption at International Agencies

First we heard about some socialist official at the International Monetary Fund staying at $3,000 per night hotel rooms and assuming that assaulting housekeeping is a normal, natural benefit of his station in life. And now we hear about FIFA, the international soccer association, may have awarded a future World Cup to Qatar because of bribery.
Australia is now asking FIFA for $46 million back from FIFA to cover the costs of their bid for the World Cup. If the bidding process was dishonest, obviously Australia should get a refund.
Of course, this is nothing new. The Salt Lake City Winter Olympic bid was tainted by similar allegations.
There seems to be no one monitoring these large international organizations.