The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic
Games (BOCOG) has been praised by an international anti-corruption organization
for establishing a committee to supervise Games construction projects.
An
official from Transparency International, an anti-corruption organization,
hailed the new BOCOG procedures to select companies for the construction
projects as "very impressive", according to Outlook Weekly magazine.
In deciding which company will be awarded a Olympic project construction
contract, the committee will randomly select several experts by computer from
its pool of experts, the article said.
In addition, all the accounts relating to Olympic projects will be examined
twice a week, the article said.
The procedures are stricter than those in some Western countries, an unnamed
official told the magazi
