Slovenia Times
2. February, 2021
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Ljubljana – The parliamentary Home Affairs Committee discussed on Monday integrity at the Court of Audit and the conduct by its president Tomaž Vesel in the wake of alleged conflict of interest caused by his work at FIFA. The session was boycotted by four opposition parties and ended with two proposals, one of them being for Vesel to resign.
Concluding the session, Branko Grims of the ruling Democrats (SDS), the chair of the committee, said that the discussion as well as everything that had been brought forward during it showed that the allegations were well founded.
Slovenia Times
29. January, 2021
Ljubljana – Slovenia has made no headway in the 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) compiled annually by Transparency International (TI). Like in 2019, Slovenia ranked 39th among 180 countries included in the index. With a score of 60 points, it once again fell short of the EU average of 64 points and the OECD average of 67 points.
Since 2012, Slovenia has not made headway up the CPI rankings. The index measures the perception of corruption in the public sector, with 0 points indicating a high level of corruption perception and 100 points a very low level of perceived corruption.
TI Slovenia said that the country’s lack of headway reflected slow progress in anti-corruption reforms and the absence of measures to enforce existing rules.
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Slovenia Times
7. January, 2021
Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has found the purchases of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the spring wave of coronavirus were inefficient, according to a leaked draft report obtained by the newspaper Delo. The report does not name anyone in particular as especially problematic.
The report, which remains confidential until the audited institutions and individuals have given their comments, finds an efficient system to assess the needs for essential supplies had not been put in place, which led to the government being inefficient in acquiring the equipment, writes Delo.
Court of Audit president Tomaž Vesel has said that in looking into the efficiency of the purchases, the auditors took into consideration the fact that the purchases were conducted in a state of emergency.
Slovenia Times
31. December, 2020
Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has completed a draft report on the purchasing of protective personal equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus epidemic. The report will not be made public until the audited institutions and individuals have given their comments, but court president Tomaž Vesel said that suspicion of criminal conduct had been detected.
The court has sent the police a document in which suspicions of criminal conduct have been detailed for 13 of the 100-odd contracts reviewed as part of the audit, Vesel told the press on Wednesday.
While he did not disclose which contracts were singled out, he said some were “in addition to what has already been exposed in the media”.