Tijolaço: Siemens and Alstom sponsor the Ethos Institute
Interestingly, the companies involved in bribery scandals in the São Paulo Metro sponsor the organization that aims to combat "the use of influence peddling and the offering or receiving of bribes by any person or public or private entity"; the organization will also participate in the Transparency Movement, at Alckmin's invitation, to investigate the case, but denies any conflict of interest.
247 - In the eye of the storm of allegations about bribes paid to politicians to gain preferential treatment in bidding processes for major public works in Brazil, the German multinational Siemens and the French multinational Alstom sponsor none other than the Ethos Institute. According to the organization itself, its aim is to combat "the use of influence peddling and the offering or receiving of bribes by any person or public or private entity." This fact was highlighted by the blog. brick, by Fernando Brito.
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The ethics of the jabuticaba fruit: Siemens and Alstom sponsor Ethos.
Our country is not a marvel...
Siemens and Alstom, two world champions in paying bribes (click here e here (to see the global bribery record of each one) sponsor, in Brazil, none other than the Ethos Institute, an organization whose objective, she says, is to combat "the use of influence peddling and the offering or receiving of bribes or kickbacks by any person or public or private entity".
And Ethos, invited by Governor Geraldo Alckmin, will join the "Pro-Transparency Commission" investigating the scandal involving the overpriced São Paulo subway and train systems with Siemens and Alstom!
Jabuticabas, please!
Ethos' vice-president, Paulo Itacarambi, said there is no conflict of interest in being sponsored by the two companies. He told Folha that he receives "only" R$ 18 and R$ 14 per year from Alstom and Siemens, respectively.
Is not true.
Siemens alone allocated US$3 million to one of the Ethos projects, the "Clean Games" initiative. The World Bank did not select the projects to which the money from the sanctions imposed on the company for corruption would be allocated. The World Bank only monitors, with veto power, the selection of programs.
Alstom is not merely a contributing partner. Along with Siemens and other companies, it sponsored, believe it or not, the publication of a magazine about corporate responsibility in elections.
Moreover, as the organizer of the Business Pact for Integrity and against Corruption, Ethos was also unaware of the convictions of Siemens and Alstom for distributing bribes widely around the world, and of the allegations here, and invited the foxes to guard the henhouse?
It seems that the people at Ethos are as clueless as Alckmin, who knew nothing and then found himself facing 45 investigations from the State Public Prosecutor's Office.
The jabuticaba fruit's ethics are reminiscent of that story about the mobster who ordered killings and brought flowers to funerals.
Here, they steal and use a small amount of that money to fund "honesty" NGOs.
And it's even tax-deductible!
By: Fernando Brito