Frontline: Black Money

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A former Minister of Finance in the Russian Federation quipped once, when pressed by western journalists about something or other:

"But bribery is not corruption!"

There is no corruption in Sweden because there is no concept of corruption in Swedish law.

Inga Britt Ahlenius, Auditor General of Sweden, was finally forced out by the Social Democrats under Göran Persson as she was cramping his style.

A number of older articles about corruption in Sweden (in Swedish only)
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/statens-har...tiker-1.521469




http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/ahlenius_bio.asp

On 20 April 2005, the Secretary-General proposed for approval by the General Assembly the appointment of Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden as Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services for a five-year non-renewable term.
Mrs. Ahlenius is currently Auditor General of Kosovo and was previously Auditor General of Sweden . She was appointed Auditor General of the Swedish National Audit Office on 1 October 1993 . Prior to her appointment as Auditor General, Mrs. Ahlenius worked for the Ministry of Finance as Head of the Budget Department from 1987 to 1993. During her tenure as Auditor-General of Sweden , Mrs. Ahlenius chaired the INTOSAI Auditing Standards Committee for eight years. She was chairman of the Governing Board of the European Organization for Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) during 1993 to 1996.
Mrs. Ahlenius was a member of the Committee of Independent Experts that was called for by the European Parliament with a mandate to examine the way in which the European Commission detects and deals with fraud, mismanagement and nepotism. [Their report led to the resignation of the Commission.]