Odious Debts Online

January 16, 2008

Reuters has just reported [PDF] that World Bank chief anti-corruption investigator Suzanne Rich Folsom, quit her post today. World Bank spokesman Marwan Muasher emphasized that Folsom had not been forced from her position. But criticisms within the World Bank arose, says Reuters, over whether Folsom’s appointment was tied to her political connections with the Republican party and escalated as her department became more aggressive in the controversial anti-corruption campaign of Paul Wolfowitz, the former bank president who was forced to resign last June over what The Wall Street Journal has argued [PDF] were “bogus” corruption charges. The Washington-based whistle-blower protection group, Government Accountability Project, a long-time critic of Folsom’s, called her resignation “long overdue.”