U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold third hearing on Combating Corruption in the MDBs September 28

21 September 2004

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on "Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Developments (III)" on Tuesday, September 28, at 2:30 p.m. in 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing will be presided by Senator Richard Lugar. Witnesses will be announced shortly.

This hearing is the fourth in recent months related to Multilateral Development Bank oversight, demonstrating increasing concern in Congress about the need to address corruption in Multilateral Development Bank lending.

• September 28 hearing announcement (Senate Foreign Relations Committee website)

Additional Resources

At a hearing held on May 13, 2004 Manish Bapna, Executive Director of the Bank Information Center, gave testimony regarding MDB corruption on behalf of several civil society organizations.

• Written Testimony of Manish Bapna before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, May 13, 2004 (Acrobat pdf 589 KB)
• BIC update on May 13 hearing on "Combatting Corruption in the MDBs"
• BIC update on Senate Foreign Relations Committee July 21 hearing on "U.S. Treasury role and internal efforts to combat MDB corruption"