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"I made one wrong move in my career, now it has tarnished my reputation. I fully regret what I did. Football has been my life, but it has taken me down now.’"
Malaysian football coach Chow Kwai Lam, on the match-fixing charges were filed against him last year.
The Straits Times; Singapore; 11 April 2007
"The world's administrators will try and dismiss Woolmer's death as a one-off crime, rather than a malign disease on the body of the game. Greed will screen the truth. It is in the interests of cricket's administrators to pretend they cannot smell the stink of corruption, since cricket has given them budgets beyond their wildest fantasies.''
M J Akbar, editor of The Asian Age
The Daily Telegraph; UK; 3 April 2007
** Please see Transparency Watch’s summary of this story on in the Corruption in the News section.
"The Nigerian government should ensure that these elections mark a sharp departure from the violence and corruption that has marred the political system…But it seems plain that this April, Nigerian voters will again face the threat of violence, intimidation and fraud."
Peter Takirambudde, Africa director of Human Rights Watch
Irish Times, Ireland; 5 April 2007
"High government positions and powerful connections should not be tickets to corrupt self-enrichment. The public trust is not for sale."
Carol Lam, fired US Attorney from San Diego, CA, after announcing the indictments of two high level alleged corruption co-conspirators the day before she stepped down from office.
Los Angeles Times, US; 9 March 2007
** Please see Transparency Watch’s summary of this story on in the Corruption in the News section.
''A key message from the research is that Australians think children in developing countries would be much better off if it weren't for corrupt governance, the inadequacy of the aid budget and an insufficient proportion of aid agency funds directly reaching the communities."
ChildFund chief executive officer Nigel Spence
The Australian; Australia; 2 April 2007
''People have already started using them and it is working. One auto-rickshaw driver was pulled over by a policeman in the middle of the night who said he could go if he was 'taken care of'. The driver gave him the note instead. The policeman was shocked but smiled and let him go. The purpose of this is to instil confidence in people to say no to bribery.”
Vijay Anand, the president of 5th Pillar, on their 0 “rupee” notes, intended to help normal people make a statement when asked for bribes.
The Australian; Australia; 10 April 2007
“[Russian Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei] Fridinsky drew a disheartening conclusion for the (Russian) military. There was no radical change in the combating of theft in the army. The scale of theft is counted in hundreds of millions of rubles.”
Andrei Sharov, Defence and Security, Russia; 2 April 2007