NAPLES -- President of the Parliament’s Anti-Mafia Commission, Rosy Bindi, has asked the District Attorney’s Office of Naples for more information concerning eventual current investigations going on that involve Campania Region President Vincenzo De Luca’s intervention some days ago where he supposedly asked local politicians to procure ‘yes’ votes for the upcoming national referendum.
ROME -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Wednesday defended the "criteria of transparency and legality" that the UN agency claims led to the appointment of former first lady Nadine Heredia as director of its Liaison Office in Geneva, despite her being investigated in Peru for corruption and money laundering.
In a statement, the FAO claimed "that the appointment of Heredia was transparent and subject to the normal procedures based on a rigorous selection process that included a review by a committee, which assessed their professional skills."
LIMA -- This convenient new International Immunity will stop the detention and prosecution of Nadine Heredia Alarcón, who yesterday left Peru directly out of the front door, opportunely open at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport because she was not prevented from travelling abroad -- custody against her was not even pronounced, nor would it ever be, just as is happening with another old investigated figure, Alejandro Toledo Manrique (a former Peruvian president).
ROME – The Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) shall meet in Piazza delle Cinque Lune at 10:30am Thursday to seek solutions to the phenomenon of freqent “frivolous lawsuits” which pose a true threat to journalists and indeed the freedom of the press in general, especially those journalists who work daily to tackle mafia and corruption.
ROME -- UK lecturers in Italy have asked the European Commissioners Věra Jourová and Frans Timmermans to set up a ‘special fund’ to compensate British and other non-Italian lecturers (‘lettori’) for discrimination in Italian universities and to guarantee their pensions.
LIMA -- Peruvian ex-first lady Nadine Heredia Alarcón managed to travel to Spain after controversially being appointed director of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s liaison office at the UN in Geneva -- despite having been banned earlier in the year from leaving the country due to corruption investigations, the Perú21 news source said Wednesday.
LIMA -- The Peruvian Foreign Ministry has issued an "energetic protest" to the Food and Agriculture Organisation over the UN agency's Brazilian director general Jose Graziano da Silva hiring Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to head the FAO liaison office at the UN in Geneva despite the politician being at the heart of a massive corruption investigation, officials said Wednesday.
ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has appointed former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia Alarcón to head the UN agency’s liaison office with the UN in Geneva, despite Ms Alarcon evidently being banned from leaving Peru because she is under investigation on corruption charges in her homeland.
ROME – The sixth edition of the ‘A Tutta Torba!’ day, a celebration dedicated entirely to peaty whisky, shall be held at the Ardberg Cocktail Bar Dec. 4, managed by Massimo D’Addezio of the Chorus Cafè.
