A Baltic Striptease?

The elaborate courtship between the EU and tiny Latvia concluded last month with resounding “yes”. Throughout the bigger suiter kept pressing one irksome issue: corruption. In the next six months Latvia is set to join both NATO and the EU. When it does, the financial largesse of Western Europe and the United States will rain down, to the tune of more than $500 for each man, woman and child in this country of 2.5 million. Where that money ends up and how it is spent is part of the Corruption Bureau’s work – and right now it’s focused squarely on the port city of Ventspils, Mayor Aivars Lembergs. His income last year was more than $1 million. His official city salary is $7112.
The allegations of fiscal impropriety swirling about him are political, he said, designed to break hi hold on the city and its 44000 voters. He testily refused to answer publshied charges that his wife and children can be found prominently in the maze of offshore companies controlling one of Latvia’s fattest corporate cows, Ventspils Nafta. Lemberg’s political future depends...

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