Influence peddling
Influence peddling, also called traffic of influence or trading in influence, is the practice of using one's influence in government or connections with authorities to obtain favours or preferential treatment for another, usually in
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has often used the modified term "undue influence peddling" to refer to illegal acts of lobbying;[1] however, influence peddling is typically associated with corruption and may therefore delegitimise democratic politics with the general public. It is punishable as a crime in Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Romania,[2]
Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Known cases
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In December 2008,
vice president of Argentina, was accused of being a mere straw owner of the printing house Ciccone Calcográfica, a private company that has contracts to print over 120 million new Argentine pesos banknotes, license plates, and other government issues. The scandal became known as Boudougate, as the contracts were awarded by Boudou himself when he was the Economy Minister.[5]
In the
BNDES to finance those projects. Countries where this allegedly took place include Ghana, Angola, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.[6]
On 9 December 2016, the National Assembly impeached
Saenuri Party primaries in the 2016 South Korean legislative election, for which she was sentenced to two more years in prison.[citation needed
]
See also
- Bribery
- Lobbying
- Logrolling
- Money trail
- Political corruption
- Political finance
- Pork barrel politics
References
- ^ "Building a Cleaner World Economy". OECD. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ISBN 8814083029.
- ^ Hornick, Ed; Kristi Keck; Brianna Keilar (31 December 2008). "Senate Democrats hope stalling can block Blagojevich's pick". CNN. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
- The Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the originalon 15 April 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ "El caso de la ex imprenta Ciccone". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 October 2018.
- ^ As suspeitas de tráfico de influência internacional sobre o ex-presidente Lula: O Ministério Público Federal abre uma investigação contra o petista – ele é suspeito de ajudar a Odebrecht em contratos bilionários, 30/04/2015 - Updated 08/05/2015
External links
- P. Semeraro, Trading in influence and Lobbying in the Spanish criminal Code, p. 297.