Italians busted by Finn
Tags: Uncategorized — Author: Kristian 
@ 11:54 am
@ 11:54 am This is absolutely rich!
a Finnish entrepreneur had been asked to pay a significant bribe in order to get a construction contract from the EU for a project in India.
So far, authorities have arrested three Italians living in Brussels - a 46-year-old employee of the European Commission, the 60-year-old aide of an Italian MEP, and a 39-year-old businessman working in the real estate business.
If this reveals itself to be true, then some in Finland will surely say something to the effect that this is so typically Finnish…….and so typically Italian!
Seriously though, I really hope they can prosecute anyone who is taking bribes. I’m very pro-EU, and this type of activity shouldn’t exist. Can’t wait to see how this alleged caper unfurls.
Silly us. We should probably learn to make decent prosciutto di parma instead of blowing the whistle on these corruption practices so innate to the Mediterranean cultures. After all, that seems to be what really counts in the EU.
Comment by Ã…boy — Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
Yes, one up on the Italians. :D. Thats payback for the comments about finnish food.
Comment by saku — Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
Just curious: How come no one covered the elevator cartel news at all in this blog? Nothing to say about it or did everyone just miss the story?
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Kone+fined+EUR+142+million+in+elevator+cartel+case/1135225304063
Comment by Pave — Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
*hush*
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Aboy, Jesus Christ said: “Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus lapidem mittat”. Roughly translating, if Finns are without sin let them throw the first stone. And Finns cannot, as comment 4 shows.
Said this, I am very happy that those three italian politicians were caught and I hope they’ll pay as due, no matter of the nation of the entrepreneur that accused them.
By the way, reading the italian report it is possible to find the namesof the finnish entrepreneur, Arto Helin and that eventually he supposedly paid the bribe. If this is true he should go to jail as well, I believe…
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Comment by katas — Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 @ 10:43 pm
Kone is an independent company. Companies can be corrupt. The point is that there’s very little corruption of government and its officials in Finland. The kind of corruption that is abundant and taken more or less granted in some other cultures. That’s why Finland is one of the least corrupted countries in the world.
Companies and entrepreneurs are corrupt everywhere but it’s the corruption of government officials that counts more in the everyday life of a person and on the international comparative statistics.
Comment by Ã…boy — Sat, Mar 31st, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
A priest shows to a lamdlord the list of the landlord’s superintendent cheatings.
-My dear father,- says the landlord.- I never had such a good superintendent. I know he is a pilfer, a cheater, a corrupted man, and he is robbing my money. But to become rich, he has to make me richer first, and this is exactly what he is doing. (From a Sicilian novel of Nobel Prize Luigi Pirandello)
Comment by strudel — Sun, Apr 1st, 2007 @ 8:32 am
your a communist idiot
Comment by truth — Sun, Apr 1st, 2007 @ 2:17 pm
Go grow some balls truth
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Apr 2nd, 2007 @ 10:50 am
These comments seem to discriminate against all Italians. Not all Italians are corrupt. This seems to be an ignorant Blog site
Comment by Jennifer — Tue, Apr 17th, 2007 @ 3:00 am
Jennifer,
IMHO, they are just voicing out their subjective opinions on this matter and not intentionally discrimaning against all Italians.
This is a free society where everyone can speak freely.
Peace
- Jan
Comment by Jan — Sun, Aug 19th, 2007 @ 3:29 pm