Sentence examples for asset declaration from inspiring English sources
In comparison to this rising young Russian generation, Putin remains a man of the middle class, according to his asset declaration.
The report said an unnamed official at the Afghan oversight agency told investigators that the asset declaration process for top officials was "window dressing designed to keep the international community happy".
The Code of Conduct Bureau, which receives asset declaration forms from politicians, keeps these locked away, with citizens unable to access them – even using the Freedom of Information law.
Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo's asset declaration listed $900,000 in bank accounts, a four-bedroom residence, a three-bedroom flat, a two-bedroom flat and a two-bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford, England, the statement said, adding that the vice president also has shareholdings in six private companies based in Lagos and three cars.
Politicians, belatedly grasping the new institutions' importance, are fighting to gain influence over them with hearteningly little success.Take the most celebrated case involving the new agencies: that of the asset declaration made by Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, while serving as a minister in a previous government.
He said the High Office of Oversight was in a better position than the American inspector general to discuss asset declarations by officials like Mr. Karzai.
In the election on January 6th, the voters look likely to turf out the sitting prime minister and replace him with a businessman who, according to the country's Counter-corruption Commission, has made false asset declarations.
Other Karzai administration members who failed to file asset declarations, the report said, included Yunus Qanuni, who succeeded Mr. Fahim as first vice president, and Ghulam Mujtaba Patang, Mr. Karzai's interior minister.
The new French law will create a tougher monitoring body to check MPs' assets declarations.
On 30 January 2008, Ao was found guilty on 40 counts of bribe-taking, 13 counts of money laundering, two counts of abuse of power, one count of incorrect declaration of assets and one count of holding assets from unknown sources; Ao was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
