World Bank bans Macmillan publishers
International publishing company Macmillan has been banned from all World Bank contracts for the next six years.
Macmillan, one of the best-known international publishers, has been banned from all World Bank contracts for the next six years, after admitting to bribery payments relating to a Trust Fund-supported education project in southern Sudan.
The publisher has been declared “ineligible to be awarded World Bank-financed contracts” and has itself voluntarily referred its concerns to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over the “improper and unauthorised payments made to public officials in southern Sudan in an unsuccessful bid to secure a contract funded by the World Bank”.
Leonard McCarthy, Integrity Vice President at the World Bank Group, said: “This agreement is an acknowledgement of past wrongdoing by Macmillan and demonstrates the World Bank’s unwavering commitment to ensuring all those who participate in World Bank-financed projects, including those who do not actually get contracts, are held to the highest levels of integrity, while also encouraging companies to come forward and join our fight against corruption.”
Macmillan was originally barred for eight years, however this was reduced to six years due to an early acknowledgement of misconduct by the company. This, in turn, could be reduced further – to three years if Macmillan implements a compliance programme and cooperates with the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT).
Annette Thomas, Chief Executive of Macmillan, said: “Our message today is clear: we will not tolerate any form of potentially unlawful behaviour. We are deeply shocked to have discovered these issues, and are sorry for the harm that such behaviour will have done.
“Macmillan is a business with strong values rooted in education and development, which we hold dear. We will work tenaciously to protect it from bad conduct. There is no suggestion that these concerns have affected any of Macmillan’s other principal businesses, and it is the case that they are confined to a limited part of our education business. Despite this, we take the situation very seriously and have been co-operating fully with the authorities.”
Macmillan has its headquarters in Hampshire, England. Its Macmillan Education subsidiary is one of the world’s leading publishers of English Language teaching and school curriculum material, operating in 130 countries, and is based in Oxford.
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Macmillan Publishers are used to these types of operations. Macmillan’s Nature magazine definitely undertakes covert operations in the science arena and in 2008 stopped the alternative strategy against human-to-human Bird Flu being given the light of day. Through their dirty work via publications for their big pharma advertisers and their friends in the industry who receive millions to support their vaccine strategy through research, they destroyed the only way to stop the eventual pandemic coming. That strategy was field work where there are no big profits in this proactive strategy – the preventative strategy and the common-sense never let it happen in the first place philosophy. The ‘first’ law of medicine !
Therefore I am not surprised at all that they have been found out to be a corrupt company. For they put profit all the time above human life itself. The stupid situation is relying upon the drugs strategy, that most of us will be well dead by the time we would receive a vaccine based upon the time-scale of the Swine Flu outbreak last year and where after 1 year 1 month less than 25% of the people in the USA received a vaccine. The Spanish Flu did its worst between week 16 and week 26 in the second wave.
For anyone who is interested, the eradication strategy that would have prevented an eventual pandemic happening (WHO says it is only a matter of time before a lethal equivalent virus emerges that killed up to 100 million in 1918 – with 3.5 times more humans now living on planet earth, the death toll now will most probably be in the hundreds of millions if not more) and what Nature Magazine destroyed on the altar of profit was,
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