Johnson Sirleaf, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her work for women's rights, has been facing growing criticism for failing to root out government-level corruption as the country begins potentially lucrative iron ore exports and explores for oil offshore.
Pratap said: "The commission was exposing too much corruption at government level and risked undermining tightly woven corporate collusion with the political class, which has sadly become endemic in the mining industry.
The system was later reinstated in the 1999 constitution because of concerns that direct transfer of funds fostered corruption at the local government level (11).
The real issues, in my own experience, are poverty, human population growth, and corruption (both in the government level, but also in the NGO community).
Whether he surrendered his seat voluntarily or under pressure from the Kremlin, Mr. Pekhtin's departure set a precedent in the Russian government, where high-level corruption and lavish spending overseas have developed into a serious political liability.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under pressure from the United States and its coalition partners to shake up his government and curb high-level corruption, President Hamid Karzai named as his interior minister on Saturday a former official of Afghanistan's Communist-era secret police.
Villaviencio, a journalist, and Jiménez have been investigating high-level government corruption.
They also exposed a case of high-level government corruption, which involved selling off sacks of flour that had been donated to the poor.
The Chinese billionaire was living in New York, broadcasting allegations of high-level government corruption in China on Twitter and YouTube — some credible, some outlandish and still unproved.
The authorities have stepped up arrests and handed down stiff sentences to several people who have not only been writing about high-level government corruption but have been demanding greater civil liberties.
But with the release of the case files — parts of which were published in the Honduran press before being obtained by The New York Times — the country is now confronted with a glaring example of top-level government corruption and collusion with drug traffickers.
