Top Commission official owning a luxury hotel on Bali shows you everything that*s wrong with Ethics rules in the Commission
▶️assets not declared
▶️"owning" not considered an activity
▶️most flexible ways to interpret rules
▶️no independent assessment of conflict of interests /1

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▶️ lack of care within the institution
▶️ trust & self-control, instead of independent oversight

This kind of "we'll-probably-get-away-with-it-attitude" is not suitable for a democratically accountable institution. It's in the Commission's best interest to have a proper /2

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Ethics Body. One that can deal with individual cases like this one. Commission assurances that everything went by the book is not convincing. Independent assessment needed!
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