copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: List of NPP Cabinet Ministers in the New Government (Social Media Users, 2024-08-27)
Evidence (2024-05-06): Papua New Guinea chief of state: King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Governor General Grand Chief Sir Bob DADAE (since 28 February 2017)head of government: Prime Minister James MARAPE (since 30 May 2019) [...] cabinet: Council of Ministers nominated by the prime minister, appointed by the king; a Privy Council advises the king elections/appointments: the monarchy is hereditary; prime minister candidate approved by the House of Representatives and Senate and appointed by the king; starting in 2024, approval of prime minister needed only by the House of Representatives note: following its May 2023 election win, the MJP formed an eight-party coalition and put forward its leader PITA Limjaroenrat for prime minister; however, the Senate blocked PITA from becoming prime minister in the first National Assembly vote in July 2023, and the Assembly subsequently voted that he could not submit his name again; the Constitutional Court also suspended PITA after accepting cases accusing him of violating election law; in August 2023, MJP handed over the lead in forming a new government to the second largest party in the coalition, PTP, which then formed a new coalition without MJP; PTP put forward SRETTHA Thavisin for prime minister, and he was approved by the National Assembly 482 votes out of a possible 747
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-08-14): The claim that none of the NPP members declared their assets is false. All three NPP MPs have submitted their asset declarations as required by law, and these have been published by CIABOC. The discrepancy arises from the voluntary nature of the Transparency International project, which does not legally require MPs to participate. The claim on social media misrepresents the facts by conflating the voluntary TI list with the mandatory legal requirement.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2021-10-03): The leak also links Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco, and shows the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France. [...] There is no suggestion in the Pandora Papers that Tony and Cherie Blair were hiding their wealth.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-10-03): The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee, known as JURI, is going through the declarations of interest of all top EU officials to find out.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2022-02-11): Eleven members of parliament risks losing their parliamentary seats for failing to declare their assets Chairperson of the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament, Joyce Chitsulo has said the committee will write the office of the speaker to impose sanctions on eleven members of Parliament who failed to declare their assets. [...] Chitsulo said they got a report from the office of assets declaration that 32 members of Parliament and 175 councillors did not declare their assets and the Committee conducted an inquiry where the members were invited.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2022-09-13): The Audit Service responded with the data on May 17, 2022. The information shows that a number of MPs, including some of its leaders, had not fully complied with the Asset Declaration Act. [...] Despite his call to widen the net, Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu failed to live up to his responsibility of declaring his assets and liabilities. [...] Per the law, all the members of parliament, including its leaders, were supposed to declare their assets before taking office. However, two years on, the leaders of the House have not done that.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-04-11): New Era can reveal that 40 of the 104 lawmakers in the National Assembly failed to declare their interests on time. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Professor Peter Katjavivi, confirmed this on Monday, but declined to disclose the names of the culprits. The last time assets were declared in the National Assembly was in 2009. [...] In terms of the Parliamentary Code of Conduct the declaration of assets is obligatory and all members of the National Assembly are obliged by law to submit this information. According to Katjavivi: "The matter is currently receiving the necessary attention and members are being reminded to comply without fail." [...] New Era understands that certain members of the executive (Cabinet) are among those that failed to abide by the laws of parliament when they failed to publicly declare their assets and interests.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-01-15): As it is, in Malta, the duty of members of the house of representatives to declare their assets only emerges from the provisions of the code of ethics for MPs, which appears as the first schedule of the Standards in Public Life Act (chapter 570 of the laws of Malta). [...] To make things worse, an inadequate asset declaration form has consistently led to inconsistencies and manifest under-declarations being made and, perhaps, encourages MPs to be economical with their declarations. Indeed, when any declaration is, in fact, made, it normally raises more questions than it answers. So, has the time come, once we are in the process of undertaking a radical and extensive constitutional reform, to enshrine the duty of all MPs, and possibly extend it to all public officials, to declare their assets under our constitution and for the imposition of strong sanctions on those who fail to do so properly?
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-10-08): KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5): An extended deadline for Members of Parliament (MPs) to declare their assets lapsed today, but 62 lawmakers failed to file their statements. [...] Next was PAS which had 18 MPs not making the declaration. One MIC MP and one MCA MP had not declared their assets as well. The sole MCA MP who has not declared his assets is Dr Wee Jeck Seng, who was only sworn as MP for Tanjung Piai on Nov 18.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-03-25): 11 MPs set to have salaries docked over failure to declare financial interests on time Eleven of the 454 members required to submit their information by the September 2023 deadline failed to do so for a variety of reasons and the joint ethics committee said it’s taken a no-tolerance approach to those who have not complied. CAPE TOWN - Eleven African National Congress (ANC) Members of Parliament (MPs) are set to have their salaries docked and be formally reprimanded in Parliament for failing to declare their financial interests on time.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2022-09-12): The Audit Service responded with the data on May 17, 2022. The information shows that a number of MPs, including some of its leaders, had not fully complied with the Asset Declaration Act. [...] According to Act 550, Public Office Holders (Declaration of Assets and Disqualification), public officers (including the members of parliament) are expected to declare their assets within six months in office and latest by six months after Parliament is dissolved. [...] Per the law, all the members of parliament, including its leaders, were supposed to declare their assets before taking office. However, two years on, the leaders of the House have not done that.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-08-16): Did NPP Members of Parliament Fail to Declare Their Assets? [...] Social media posts claim that only 16 members of parliament (MPs) declared their assets, and none of the National People’s Power (NPP) members are among them. [...] Title:Did NPP Members of Parliament Fail to Declare Their Assets?
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-02-15): As of December 2022, seven months after the deadline for members of parliament to declare their assets, only 39% had done so. [...] Others who had not declared their assets include presidential affairs minister Christine /Hoebes, transport minister John Mutorwa, defence minister Frans Kapofi, education minister Anna Nghipondoka, information minister Peya Mushelenga and labour minister Utoni Nujoma. [...] According to records, only 66 members out of the 104 declared their assets and interests for the 2021/2022 financial year.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-04-20): The chair of an influential committee of MPs has called for a "radical overhaul" of how government ministers declare their outside interests. [...] Whenever an MP becomes a minister or moves department, they must complete a declaration of all interests form including anything that might be thought to give rise to a conflict. [...] In January, Nadhim Zahawi was sacked from his job as a minister because he failed to declare interests that might have been thought to have given rise to a conflict.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2022-04-21): While a unanimous decision was made by Dewan Rakyat to compel all MPs to declare their assets, including those of their spouses, children, and trustees, asset declaration is not yet legally mandatory, and the issue is not helped by how the lawmakers of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration are resistant to asset declaration. [...] February 04, 2021 (PN) The MACC Asset Declaration Portal was launched in November 2018 under the Pakatan Harapan administration. Then in July 2019, Dewan Rakyat made a unanimous decision to compel all Members of Parliament (MP) to declare their assets, including those of their spouses, children, and trustees through a statutory declaration. However, asset declaration […] [...] July 01, 2019 (PH) A special motion to compel all lawmakers to declare their assets was tabled in Parliament on Monday (July 1). The motion proposed that those who failed to declare their assets would be hauled to the Parliament’s Select Committee on Rights and Privileges Committee. However, MPs who make false declarations will be […]
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2017-03-15): The initial decision on whether an MP has acted in contempt of parliament – for example, by failing to declare assets – is made by the relevant house’s privileges committee. [...] The upshot is there is no real likelihood MPs will face punishment for breaching financial disclosure rules. All that happens is they are allowed to "correct the record" – which makes failure to disclose essentially risk-free. [...] The consequences of MPs breaching financial disclosure rules could easily be toughened by amending the relevant law. Breaches should be subject to normal court proceedings, rather than being left to parliament’s dubious procedures. There should also be a penalty regime mirroring that applicable to company directors.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2021-02-04): Then in July 2019, Dewan Rakyat made a unanimous decision to compel all Members of Parliament (MP) to declare their assets, including those of their spouses, children, and trustees through a statutory declaration. However, asset declaration is not yet legally mandatory in Malaysia. If MPs do not declare their assets, only Parliament can take action against them. MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner (Prevention) Datuk Seri Shamshun Baharin Mohd Jamil later stated that the enforcement body is seeking a law to make it compulsory for MPs to declare their assets.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-03-30): It is unclear if he will do any jail time after fleeing to Hungary in 2018.54 - Romanian civil servants and counselors to public officials who did not declare expensive property in Dubai.55 - Ex-mayor of Belgrade (in office between 2018 and June 2022), who allegedly has not declared his apartment in Belgrade, land on Zlatibor mountain, and a holiday cottage (not sanctioned).56 - The director of the Serbian Primary Health Centre in Gračanica, a state-owned, public health institution who allegedly has not declared six apartments on the Kopaonik mountain (criminal charges filed by the Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency).57 - A former MP, Minister of Telecommunications and Minister of Infrastructure of Serbia failed to declare ownership of the company Habit Invest in his asset declaration although official data from the Central Business Registry prove contrary. The company is registered in Montenegro, and was given to the former MP without any compensation.58
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-12-07): Financial Disclosure: By law members of Parliament, civil servants, and ministers must declare their assets. Elected officials must also disclose their spouses’ and dependent children’s assets. Failure to disclose this information may lead to their disqualification from public office for five years. Heads of state, in contrast, are not required to declare their income and assets. Judges, generals, and high-level officials often concealed their assets from the public. Political parties and politicians must file annual financial accounting reports declaring their assets and liabilities. The government has not fully implemented the law, and lawmakers often disregarded it. It is the duty of the Election Commission of Pakistan to verify that political parties and politicians make their financial information publicly available; the commission posts a list of parliamentarians’ assets annually.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-07-31): A Treasury minister is being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property. Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, north London, is under investigation for the late registration of interests, according to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner's website. [...] Former Conservative MP Bob Stewart is being investigated for failing to declare an interest and an alleged lack of cooperation with the watchdog's inquiry.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-02-05): - First, making public officials’ assets public could jeopardize their privacy and expose them to all sorts of undesirable pressures, particularly given the abuse of social media and other means of information dissemination. One can imagine officials whose assets are known being targeted by their clans, villages, and family for failing to provided their personal resources for them when they need it—and this increased pressure on officials might actually increase the risk of corruption. (Of course, it’s also possible that public asset disclosures will reveal that a public official is less affluent than their family and village previously thought. But this probably wouldn’t alleviate the pressure on public officers, who are generally expected to take responsibility of their friends, families, clans, neighbors, etc.) The information contained in asset declaration forms will, in most cases, strengthen the often considerable pressure on public officers by calling attention to the resources at their disposal.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2024-05-21): MPs must register their interests within 28 days of a new parliament beginning. Newly elected MPs must include any relevant interests (other than earnings) from the year prior to their election. [...] What happens if MPs fail to disclose their interests? [...] Different reporting requirements mean that ministers may occasionally make declarations on the list of ministers’ interests that are not then included in the MPs’ register, where – unlike on the ministerial list – the value of such gifts would have to be declared. Boris Johnson, for instance, recorded a free holiday on the ministerial list in 2021, but did not include the value of this on the MPs’ register, on the basis that MPs are not required to disclose gifts wholly unconnected to their parliamentary activities. 50 Walker P, ‘Johnson will not declare Spanish holiday in MPs’ register, says No10’, The Guardian, 5 November 2021, www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/05/boris-johnson-will-not-declare-spanish-holiday-in-mps-register-says-no-10, retrieved 8 November 2022.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-09-29): If a member genuinely missed something after turning their mind to the interests they hold, that would not be a contempt. However, if a member knew of an interest and decided not to declare it, and if the interest were subsequently established to be definitively declarable, then the member would have knowingly failed to declare an interest.[99] [...] However, before participating in parliamentary business in which a member has a financial interest, they must declare that interest to the House or committee.[126] Failing to do so may be treated as a contempt of the House.[127] But the validity of the business transacted by the House or committee (for example, a question asked by the member) is not affected by the member’s failure to declare a financial interest.[128] [...] The obligation to declare a financial interest lies with the member who holds it; other members cannot impose an obligation on the member to take any action by alleging that a financial interest is held.[144] If a member holds a financial interest and fails to declare it, the issue may be raised as a matter of privilege. If there is a dispute as to whether there is a financial interest, the Speaker decides the matter, and the Speaker’s decision is final.[145] In any subsequent consideration of the matter by the Privileges Committee, the committee would be bound by the Speaker’s finding on whether a financial interest existed.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2016-04-27): WHILE the March 1 deadline for members of Parliament to file financial disclosures has passed, three more MPs have confirmed that they have yet to declare their assets, which is required by law. [...] Another elected official, South Beach MP Cleola Hamilton turned and walked away, refusing to answer questions about the status of her financial declarations when she was approached outside of the House of Assembly on Monday. [...] If a parliamentarian deliberately does not disclose property owned in The Bahamas, the land can be seized and forfeited to the government. The disclosures have not been made public since 2012, an election year.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-07-08): Leaked property data shows that Anton Obolashvili, a member of parliament with the ruling Georgia Dream party, failed to list his luxury assets in Dubai in his annual asset declarations. He attributed the omission to "human error." [...] Leaked property data from Dubai shows that, since becoming a member of parliament, he has never declared two luxury apartments he owns in the United Arab Emirates, together worth over $1.2 million. He also failed to declare the rent he received from one of the properties. [...] The problem extends beyond Obolashvili. Over half of the 346 declarations that the Civil Service Bureau verified last year failed to declare or incorrectly declared their family members and their assets, according to a report by Transparency International.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2019-07-11): Asset disclosure by public officials has been widely used to build integrity and combat corruption around the world. StAR works with governments to strengthen best practices around asset declarations to increase impact on prevention and enforcement. [...] Approximately 65 percent of countries with disclosure laws require officials to submit information not only for themselves but also for their family members. Omitting family members creates a loophole that declarants can easily abuse to avoid disclosure of assets and interests. The system can require family members to submit their disclosures directly, or the public officials can include information on assets/interests held by family members in their own declaration forms. The latter approach reduces the number of forms submitted and makes it easier to track and verify disclosures of the official. [...] Public transparency of asset and interest declarations acts as a deterrent in and of itself and reinforces other elements of the system. Public availability of information from declarations increases scrutiny and complements the enforcement efforts of the verification agency. Transparency of information about the assets and interests of public officials helps to build public sector integrity and promotes public trust in the government. Over 55% of countries require the declared information to be public.
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2023-08-07): The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has stated that it would be a breach of ethics if a member of parliament failed to declare his or her income for tax purposes. The Standards Commissioner came to this conclusion after considering three complaints against former MP Dr Jason Azzopardi for not submitting his tax returns… On 9 November 2021 Parliament’s Standards Committee unanimously adopted a report by the Commissioner for Standards which concluded that the Hon. Rosianne Cutajar MP had failed to declare income from the sale of a property in Mdina. In his report the Commissioner stated that the property in question had been sold for the sum of…
Claim: Members of Parliament Failed to Declare Their Assets !! (Social Media Users, 2024-08-14)
Evidence (2018-04-13): Hunt said his failure to declare a business interest with both Companies House and the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests was down to "honest administrative mistakes" and that he did not gain financially as a result. [...] He also did not inform the parliamentary register of members’ interests of his share in the business within the 28-day time limit, according to the publication. [...] "As such, Jeremy presumed the same rules applied to parliamentary declarations. Although there was no personal gain involved, Jeremy accepts these mistakes are his responsibility and has apologised to the parliamentary authorities."