KENYA; LIVING LARGE

"The Kibaki government had spent $12.5 million on luxury cars, largely for personal use by top Kenyan officials. That is enough to pay for eight years of school for 25,000 children."
Baltimore Sun, 28 February 2006

UNITED NATIONS; OIL FOR FOOD

Ahmad Chalabi said, in reference to corruption of the Oil for Food program "I'd say the Iraqi people were violated once by Saddam and again by the international community ... Administrative corruption turned into a worse problem than the security crisis ... I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money".
Canberra Times (Australia), 10 March 2006

ZAMBIA

"I want to remind President Mwanawasa and government officials that they all swore to protect the laws of the country. Therefore, they must uphold the laws."
Prof Alfred Chanda, TI Zambia, 9 March 2006

KENYA

President Mwai Kibaki: "Those who seek to politicise the fight against corruption should know that it is not words that will eradicate the vice, but firm and determined actions such as we are taking. And for those who may be tempted to test our resolve, let them be warned that the institutions we have put in place are alert and will spare no one."
Andnetwork.com, 22 March 2006

VENEZUELA

Agustín Blanco Muñoz, political analyst and researcher at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela) in regards to the sugar industry corruption scandal in Venezuela where over one million dollars (and potentially more) is missing:

''It was known since over a year ago, this shameless and open theft”, commented Blanco Muñoz, but lamented; “here corruption doesn’t overthrow governments.”
http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/americas/13970004.htm

(translated from Spanish)

INDIA; VOLKSWAGEN

Money flowed in allegedly only from India – 2 million euros to the firm of a consultant, with whom [Helmuth] Schuster reportedly did business. The government of the Indian state of Andra Pradesh thought it had secured a VW-factory with the money. The consultant has disappeared, the money also.

[Helmuth Wolfgang Schuster was the VW representative for India, Director of VW pension funds and Director of Human Resources for the VW-enterprise Skoda at the time of the affair in question.]
http://www.zeit.de/2006/09/dossier_09?page=1

(translated from German)

SOUTH AFRICA

In January, South Africa’s Business Day reported that a new information technology system introduced by the metro police in Johannesburg is unexpectedly helping to curb police corruption...Brought in with the aim of recovering more than R350m (c. US $55 million) in unpaid traffic fines, the system utilises mobile technology to query a centralised database when police submit a query about a motorist’s outstanding warrants of arrest or fines. If a motorist with outstanding warrants is not charged, then the system calls on the police officer to explain why no action was taken, reducing the potential for bribe giving and taking.