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送交者: buffaloboy 于 2008-12-18, 01:47:09:

Nobel Committees investigated for bribery
Published: 18 Dec 08 06:52 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/16418/20081218/

Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government.
Earlier in December, Sveriges Radio reported that members of the three Nobel Committees for natural science – medicine, physics, and chemistry – traveled to China at the invitation of the country’s government to speak about what it takes to receive a Nobel Prize.

Now public prosecutor Nils-Erik Schultz has decided to look into the matter more closely to determine whether any of the Nobel representatives who accepted the paid trips to China could be charged with bribery.

“As of now [the investigation] isn’t directed at any particular person, but at a set of procedures. In the first instance we need to focus on a few trip to China,” Schultz told Sveriges Radio.

The trips took place in March 2006 and January 2008, with the Chinese government paying for flights, hotels, and meals. One trip included two Nobel Committee representatives, while three representatives took part in the second trip.

Even the representatives themselves acknowledge that taking the trips was a risky endeavor.

“It’s a borderline case, but we discussed it ahead of time, but it is borderline,” said Bertil Fredholm, who heads the Karolinska Institutet Nobel Committee charged with picking the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Fredholm participated in one of the trips, but told Sveriges Radio he doubts that the trips would affect the impartiality of the committee in judging future Nobel nominees from China.

Sven Lidin of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who also accepted a paid trip to China, expressed his doubts after the fact.

“Just the fact that you’re asking about this makes me think that it’s possible that it would have been a better idea to pay for it from Sweden,” he said.

Schultz’s investigation will determine whether or not to file bribery charges in the case.

“We have to figure out why someone decided that they wanted to pay for tickets and living expenses for these people; was there some thought that they would try to influence these people, who hold very important positions,” he said.




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