برندا فیتزجرالد، مدیر مراکز کنترل و پیشگیری بیماری‌ها در ایالات متحده آمریکا، به طور غیر منتظره‌ای از سمت خود استعفا کرد. استعفای ایشان پس از انتشار گزارشی در Politico رخ داد؛ براساس این گزارش وی یک ماه قبل از تصدی پست مدیریت بالاترین آژانس بهداشت عمومی کشور، آژانسی که خود را وقف ترغیب سیگاری‌ها به ترک و هشدار به کودکان درباره دوری از این عادت کرده است، اقدام به خرید سهام یک شرکت بزرگ تنباکو نموده است.
Alleged Conflict of Interest Pushes Beatrix Ruf to Resign from Stedelijk Museum
Oct 2017
The allegations stem from Ruf’s operation of a private art advisory service while serving as director, and the terms attached to a major donation to the institution last year. Ruf’s resignation comes less than two weeks after a pair of investigations were published by the Dutch daily NRC. One of the reports revealed that Ruf earned €437,306 in 2015 from her private art advisory company, Currentmatters. The Stedelijk’s annual report from the same year—which specifically provides a space for the museum to disclose its director’s activities outside of her employment there—includes no reference to Currentmatters, which is registered in Switzerland, nor to any income she derived from it…
[left]Carl Icahn’s role as a special regulatory adviser to President Donald Trump has ended after questions were raised by Democratic lawmakers about potential conflicts of interest with his business dealings in oil refining and insurance.[/left]
[left]Reuters Breakingviews, the financial news and analysis Web site, disclosed on Monday that one journalist had resigned and two others were under internal review after failing to disclose financial interests in companies they covered.[/left]
[left]While Reuters has uncovered no evidence that any of its employees benefited from improper trading in shares of companies they covered, not disclosing a financial conflict of interest is a violation of its ethics policy.[/left]
[left]KPMG has resigned from its role advising the inquiry into last year’s Grenfell Tower disaster after concerns were raised over conflicts of interest.[/left]
[left]The Big Four accountancy firm was appointed to help the Grenfell Tower Inquiry with planning and programme management shortly after it was set up in the summer of 2017.[/left]
January 8, 2018
۱۸ دی ۱۳۹۶
[left]The expert brought in to sort out a faulty report about the environmental impact of expanding Lelystad airport has resigned after it emerged he is married to the head of the independent committee set up to assess the revised research.[/left]
February 13, 2018
۲۹ بهمن ۱۳۹۶
[left]A purchasing official for Child Protective Services has resigned after a state investigation concluded she had a conflict interest when her husband took a job with a nonprofit that had multimillion-dollar contracts with the state.[/left]
Even as the Supreme Court deliberates a final call on asking the BCCI to adopt a new constitution, the reforms process received some support as former Mumbai and India batsman Pravin Amre asked the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) to relieve him as an administrator to avoid conflict of interest.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The chairman of Kenya’s anti-graft body said on Wednesday he had quit after lawmakers recommended removing him from office over an alleged conflict of interest between his family business and another state-run agency.
Italy’s Industry Minister Federica Guidi submitted her resignation Thursday over an alleged conflict of interest after her partner was accused of abusing her ties with the government.
Abhinav Bindra announced on Friday that he will be stepping down as the National Observer for shooting and Chairman of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) Athlete Identification Committee, with immediate effect.
The editor of a medical journal has resigned after drawing sharp criticism for failing to disclose his financial ties to a medical-device manufacturer after publishing an paper that endorsed one of its products. The editor, Charles B. Nemeroff, chairman of Emory University’s department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was also a co-author of the paper, which said the device was an effective treatment for depression. The medical society that publishes the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, attributed his resignation, in part, to bad publicity over the paper.
AUGUST 26, 2006
۴ شهریور ۱۳۸۵
[left]The winner of a council by-election in Kent has resigned just 13 days after being elected.[/left]
[left]David Craggs, a special constable, stood down from Medway Council after being told by Kent Police his political appointment was a conflict of interest.[/left]
[left]Mr Craggs, who was elected to represent Medway’s River ward, said he checked before standing for election and had been given the all-clear.[/left]
28 August 2010
۶ شهریور ۱۳۸۹
An e-mail circulated to the London partners of the company and seen by The Independent reveals that Lord Birt, a former director general of the BBC, stopped working as a consultant to McKinsey in June by mutual consent. The company said the decision to terminate Lord Birt’s contract was made in March and “reflected a desire on both sides to avoid any potential misunderstanding about Lord Birt’s role with McKinsey’s work in the public sector - though in fact no conflict ever arose”.