Most countries would have privacy laws that prevent organisations (with exceptions for law and tax enforcement organisations) attaining and/or having access to an employee/board member’s bank account.
Would be pointless anyway, since kickbacks don’t have to be paid into a bank account[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-16/nsw-premier-barry-ofarrell-to-resign-over-icac-grange-wine/5393478]. WMAU has an internal COI register for all committee (board) members. Any time a COI arises, it needs to be disclosed. During meetings, depending on the COI the person(s) need abstain from voting or leave the meeting. >> On 21 May 2020, at 5:23 am, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awhile back I saw a joke that when reading a newspaper someone had > difficulty distinguishing between the business section and the crime > section. These days, the politics section could cause similar > confusion. Recently I have wondered about the extent to which WMF and > the affiliates take steps to prevent conflicts of interest in > financial decisions. > > I am not aware of any evidence of recent financial conflicts of > interest, but I think that taking steps to prevent and detect any > problems would be prudent. > > For example, is there any monitoring of the bank accounts of board > members and executives to ensure that they are not receiving kickbacks > from companies that have contracts with the organizations? Also, are > there "cooling off periods" which contractually require that > executives and board members of WMF and Wikimedia affiliates not > become employees of companies that have had financial relationships > with their organizations until at least a few years after their > employment or board membership with the Wikimedia organization? > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
