Baku / 11.03.19 / Turan: MP from the Netherlands Mart van de Ven submitted to the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights a draft report: "Laundromat: responding to international challenges in the fight against corruption and money laundering."
The document refers to the facts of participation of members of the Council of Europe in corruption schemes and bribing MPs from individual member countries of the organization.
In particular, the previous document called "Azerbaijan Laundromat" is mentioned, according to which official Baku paid almost 3 billion euros to improve its image and block documents criticizing violations of human rights and freedoms in Azerbaijan.
The speaker describes in detail the ways in which illegal financing from Azerbaijan was carried out, who participated in it and why it became possible.
The report stressed that the Council of Europe did not take concrete measures against the participants of these corrupt deals - Azerbaijani MPs Elkhan Suleymanov and Muslum Mammadov, who sent money to the Italian MP Luca Volonte, who played the main role in bribing other MPs.
The report refers to taking the necessary measures to curb similar phenomena in the future, punishing the participants in this scandal and the responsibility of member states that allow the use of such methods in the Council of Europe.
The report was approved on March 4 at a meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
The report is expected to be submitted for discussion at the spring session of the PACE in Strasbourg in April. -16D-
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