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Addressing corruption

Wed, Feb 01 2012 16:15 CET

byBeata Balogová, The Slovak Spectator

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Addressing corruption

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"If you do not steal from the state, you are depriving your own family". This is one of the ironic slogans that people used during the communist regime to justify the day-to-day corruption that became part of many people’s daily lives. But Theodore Sedgwick, the United States ambassador to Slovakia, told students at the Business Academy in Nitra that one needs to look at the phenomena of corruption beyond just stereotypes since it is not only post-communist countries that need to work ceaselessly to weed out corruption. He added that his homeland always has emerging corruption cases but said that in the US "when we identify corruption, we prosecute it and the people involved with it".

One of Slovakia’s policies that ambassador Sedgwick finds commendable and that he would readily export to the United States is the zero-alcohol tolerance for automobile drivers. He recommended that Slovakia’s zero-tolerance policy on alcohol should be applied to corruption as well.

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Преглед на профил kylej Wed, Feb 01 2012 18:34 CET
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"in the US "when we identify corruption, we prosecute it and the people involved with it" said Theodore Sedgwick, the United States ambassador to Slovakia.

Does this mean that there is still a chance that George Bush, Dick Chaney and Donald Rumpsfelt could be going to prison. I THINK NOT !!!


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