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Anti-Graft Watchdog to Keep Tabs on Privatisation

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The measures will be submitted to the National Assembly and the government, the commission's head, Goran Klemenčič, said after a meeting with President Borut Pahor.

Klemenčič would not divulge the details, but he said the measures had been drawn up in close cooperation with the Finance Ministry and representatives of the Bank Assets Management Company (BAMC).

He said the "very practical and specific measures" would be presented once they are submitted to the relevant authorities. "We will be very loud if they turn out to be yet another piece of paper that nobody takes seriously."

Pahor said he visited the Commission to discuss what he personally and the various watchdog institutions can do to "prevent bad experience with similar processes from repeating".

In the past Slovenia did not have the know-how for such projects, or the processes were not transparent and economical due to self-interested conduct, according to the president.

But he was quick to warn against opposition to private investors in general, noting that private incentive could be "very useful". "This will not jeopardise our national interest, on the contrary it will protect it."

The anti-corruption commission believes Slovenia lacks the institutional framework to limit corruption among economic and political decision-makers.

Progress has been made, but there is a "lack of serious political will," Klemenčič said, calling for joint efforts by all three branches of government.

"Strengthening the rule of law, improving transparency and curbing corruption and cronyism must be a shared goal," he said.
 

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