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-...].
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.pine@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?
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