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REPORT of the Independent Investigation Body on the Allegations of Corruption Within the Parliamentary Assembly Independent investigation body on the allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly Groupe d’enquête indépendant concernant les allégations de corruption au sein de l’Assemblée parlementaire IBAC-COE | GIAC-COE REPORT of the Independent Investigation Body on the allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly This Report may be subject to editorial revision 15 April 2018 CONTENTS CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................................ i LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ....................................................................................... vii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ x INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. xii A. Independent Investigation Body on the allegations of corruption within PACE ..................... xii B. Scope of the Investigation Body’s review ............................................................................... xiii C. The Investigation Body’s working methods .............................................................................xvi D. The Investigation Body’s report ............................................................................................ xviii THE FACTS ............................................................................................................................................... 1 I. ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION WITHIN THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY................................... 1 A. The ESI reports ........................................................................................................................... 1 1. Background information on the ESI work on Azerbaijan ..................................................... 1 2. The 2012 ESI report on “Caviar diplomacy” ........................................................................ 2 3. ESI reports on the Strässer affair ......................................................................................... 5 4. ESI report on the October 2013 presidential election in Azerbaijan ................................... 6 5. The 2016 ESI report on “Caviar diplomacy” ........................................................................ 7 B. The ESISC reports ....................................................................................................................... 9 1. Background information on ESISC’s work ........................................................................... 9 2. The ESISC reports ............................................................................................................... 10 C. The Freedom Files report ........................................................................................................ 11 1. Background information on the Freedom Files’ work ....................................................... 11 2. The Freedom Files report .................................................................................................. 12 D. Other relevant reports ............................................................................................................ 14 1. The OCCRP reporting project ............................................................................................. 14 2. Other media reports .......................................................................................................... 15 II. AZERBAIJAN AND THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY ................................................................... 16 A. Azerbaijan’s position within PACE ........................................................................................... 16 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 16 2. The relevant PACE activities concerning Azerbaijan ......................................................... 17 (a) The practical functioning of PACE in general .............................................................. 17 (b) Overview of the PACE activities concerning Azerbaijan ............................................. 22 (i) Monitoring Committee .......................................................................................... 22 (ii) Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights .................................................... 22 (iii) Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy ................................................... 22 (iv) Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development ................... 22 (v) PACE election observation missions in Azerbaijan ............................................... 23 3. Exertion of influence on political processes in PACE concerning Azerbaijan .................... 23 (a) Introductory observations ........................................................................................... 23 i (i) General context ...................................................................................................... 23 (ii) Reactions and wider context within the COE related to the alleged exertion of influence by Azerbaijan ............................................................................................... 24 (b) Activities in favour of Azerbaijan within PACE ............................................................ 25 (i) Activities in the Monitoring Committee ................................................................ 26 (ii) Activities in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights .......................... 29 (iii) Activities in other committees ............................................................................. 32 (iv) Other PACE activities ............................................................................................ 34 (c) Exchange of gifts and different forms of benefits ....................................................... 34 (i) Alleged existence of a special fund for gifts ........................................................... 34 (ii) Official declarations of gifts made in PACE ........................................................... 35 (iii) Examples of gifts being received in PACE ............................................................. 35 (d) The influence of extra-institutional actors (lobbyists) on PACE activities concerning Azerbaijan ................................................................................................. 38 (i) Mr Eduard Lintner .................................................................................................. 39 (ii) Mr Stef Goris ......................................................................................................... 40 (iii) Mr Jaakko Laakso ................................................................................................. 44 (iv) Ms Karin S. Woldseth ........................................................................................... 44 (v) Mr Göran Lindblad ................................................................................................ 45 (e) The use of corruptive means to foster Azerbaijan’s interests in PACE ....................... 47 (i) Alleged organisation of corruptive activities ......................................................... 47 (ii) Alleged distribution of money within PACE .......................................................... 50 (iii) Allegations concerning the appointments of Mr Agramunt as Chair of the EPP and President of PACE ................................................................................................. 50 B. The Strässer affair .................................................................................................................... 51 1. PACE’s work on the issue of political prisoners ................................................................. 51 2. Mr Strässer as rapporteur on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan ..................... 53 3. The particular circumstances of Mr Strässer’s work ......................................................... 55 4. Particular circumstances concerning the vote in the PACE plenary on the Strässer reports .............................................................................................................................. 57 (a) Report on the definition of political prisoners ............................................................ 57 (i) The vote on the report in the PACE plenary .......................................................... 57 (ii) Other facts established and allegations heard by the Investigation Body............ 57 (b) Report on the follow-up to the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan .................. 59 (i) The vote on the report in the PACE plenary .......................................................... 59 (ii) Other facts established and allegations heard by the Investigation Body............ 59 5. Relevant circumstances following the defeat of the Strässer report ................................ 61 6. Involvement of Mr Luca Volontè in the Strässer affair ..................................................... 61 (a) The facts established by the Investigation Body ......................................................... 61 (b) Criminal proceedings against Mr Volontè in Italy ....................................................... 66 ii C. PACE election
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