Norway has been reimbursed NOK 24 million over the past three years, following exposure of corruption and fraud abroad with Norwegian funds allocated for foreign aid projetcs.
This is the result of investigations made by the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs into 249 reported cases.
In one case NOK 500,000 in aid funds disappeared from a Norwegian Red Cross ambulance project in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Minister of International Development Erik Solheim says Norway must have zero tolerance for corruption.
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Norway is to provide NOK 30 million in support for the Inter-American Development Bank’s efforts to promote transparency and combat corruption. ..
This week Norway participated in an international enforcement conference related to fisheries crime organized by INTERPOL.(Photo: Fisheries Minister Lisbeth Berg-Hansen)
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Uganda has transferred NOK 23 million to Norway in repayment for aid funds that had been misappropriated. (Photo: Minister of International Development Heikki Holmås)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, on his visit to Norway, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg have signed an agreement on strategic partnership between Norway and Afghanistan.
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Eva Joly was awarded the Sophie Prize on Wednesday for her work against economic crime and corruption, and her vision of a sustainable, equitable society.
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The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has charged two members of Yara's corporate executive management team.
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Norway's Minister of Trade and Industry, Trond Giske, has travelled to India in an attempt to open up Telenor's communication with India's finance minister and save the mobile carrier's investments in India.
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Norwegian global fertilizer producer Yara International has initiated an external investigation which has now uncovered unacceptable payments from the company's joint venture in Switzerland.
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The Committee of Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs has unanimously decided to open a case against the Minster of Children and Equality, Audun Lysbakken (photo), for alleged breach of protocol.
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