1. Commission for the Prevention
of Corruption
Jaka Kosmač
Dunajska 56, Ljubljana
t +386 1 400 57 10
f +386 1 478 84 72
www.kpk-rs.si
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2. “Our mandate is preventing corruption, strengthening the
rule of law, integrity and transparency of public sector. Our
moto is: integrity, accountability, rule of law.”
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3. Organizational Stucture and Staff of Commission
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4. Project Transparency
 public accessibility to information on matters of public concern
 three different services that will be later on upgraded with new topics:
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SUPERVIZOR - online
application for
monitoring expenses
of public bodies
CONTACTS WITH
LOBBYISTS - list of
reported contacts with
lobbyists
FINANCIAL STATUS OF
MEMBERS OF THE
COMMISSION

5. Supervizor
Providing citizens with information about the government
spending
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6. Supervizor – first steps
• The idea arised among some CPC’s enthusiastic
employees, which in cooperation with external partners
prepared it for free (relevant data provided by other bodies)
• Application has been developed in less than a month.
• Daily updated.
• Adding data is highly automatized, so operating costs are low.
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7. Supervizor – first steps and responses
• Introduction of the Supervizor didn't require any law
modification → gathered information already available to
slovenian citizens on legal basis of the Access to public
information Act on a principle of special requirement.
• Public launch: 23. 8. 2011; significant interests by the public
on first day: 1.200.000 pageviews.
• “Supervizor is not a toy, it’s a tool for responsible journalism
and responsible citizenship” (Chief Commissioner G. K. on
the public launch day).
• Mostly positive response, from other budget users, local
level, abroad (nominated for the UNPSA, awarded NETKO
award for the best digital project of the public administration).
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8. Supervizor – who can use it?
• Insight in financial flows among the public and the private
sector not only to the public, media, profession, but also to
regulatory and supervisory bodies.
• On basis of Supervizor data in 2012 more than 100 cases of
suspected violations of restriction on business were
discovered by CPC (mostly on local level) and approx. Worth
1,4 million €.
• Transparency of financial flows among the public and the
private sector increases level of responsibilities of public
office holders for use of public finance, adopted and planned
investments, abuse of functions → limits systemic
corruption, unfair competitivnes and clientage in public
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9. Supervizor – aim
• Supervizor implements the primary purpose of the CPC
mission: strenghtening the rule of law, integrity and
transparency, limiting corruption risks and conflicts of
interest.
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10. • Supervizor is an online application that provides information
on business transactions of the public sector bodies by simple
browsing and grafical presentation.
• User can view all money transfers from selected budget user
or all money transfers from the budget user to selected
company.
• Data shown for a specified period of time.
• It indicates the largest recipients of finances, related legal
entities, date and amount of transactions and also their
purpose (for all transactions over 2000 EUR).
Supervizor – how does it “work?”
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11. • Application also shows data about public procurements,
management and ownership structure of the companies and
some information from their annual reports.
• Important part is a module, which shows list and information
about public owned companies.
• Centralized system of the budget users transfers as the crucial
condition.
• Supervizor oversees 4,7 bn € of annual public spending, which
is approx. half of the budget of the Republic of Slovenia.
• ! Supervisor combines data – it doesn’t give answers, but
helps asking better questions.
Supervizor – how does it “work?”
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12. Financial flow analysis
http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si

13. • Public Payments Administration; providing payment services
for direct and indirect budget users (gathered data from 1. 1.
2003).
• Slovenian Business Register; central public database on all
business and legal entities, their subsidiaries, and other
organization segments located in Slovenia (public and private
institutes)).
• Annual reports of Slovenian companies.
• Ministry of the Finance; Database of public procurements
and procurement of a small value.
• only combines relevant data from different sources in more
user-friendly format, not interprating content in any way.
Data sources
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14. • Some transactions were removed:
– transactions to physical persons (salaries, expenses related to
salaries, etc.);
– transactions to accounts of health insurance companies containing
personal data;
– transactions from deposit account of the Customs Administration of the
Republic of Slovenia;
– transactions to Central Securities Clearing Corporation for the purchase of
debt securities and payments of Public Payments Administration for the
repayment of debt;
– transactions to intelligence and security services;
– transactions to banks;
– transactions among budget users;
– returns of taxes, etc.
Datasets – removed data
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15. Financial flow analysis
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16. Dependance from public sector
Data from annual reports combined with data from database of public sector
payments.

17. • detecting companies, who received money transfers
depending of the government in charge.
• Analysis has shown:
• high correlation between the change of government in power
and money flow from budget users to a limited number of
companies.
• high inflexibility of the market for certain services (namely IT
companies, pharmaceutics companies, construction
companies, etc.).
• a group of companies, highly dependent on the budget users
money transfers (a great amount of their income from budget
users only), which constitutes a noticeable risk of corruption.
Financial flow analysis
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18. Financial flow analysis
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1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Summary monthly payments to 65 companies

19. EUR 0.00
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1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Summary monthly payments to 252 companies
Financial flow analysis

20. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Company A

21. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Company B

22. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Company G
(director A)
Company H
(director A)

23. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Monthly payments to top 5
pharmaceutical companies – high inflexibility of the market
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5

24. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Payment shares of top 5 pharmaceutical companies
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25. Financial flow analysis
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Payments to 3483 IT companies

26. Plans for the future
• Supervizor 2.0 upgrade in final phase.
• Further upgrade and improvement by the CPC in cooperation
with other bodies.
• Goal → to get acces to some additional databases and publish
them (judiciary registers, …) → to perform more complex
analysis and visualisation of data:
– advanced data mining,
– detection of violations of restrictions as regard profitable activity,
– pattern search,
– advanced network analysis (detection of affiliate persons and affiliate
companies).
– full text search (all public procurements on certain topic/of certain
type of budget user, (local communities …).
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27. • We are finishing Supervizor 2.0.
• Goal → get access and publish some additional databases
(judiciary registers …).
• To perform more complex analysis and visualisation of data:
– advanced data mining
– detection of violations of restrictions on business
– pattern search
– advanced network analysis (detection of affiliate persons and affiliate
companies).
Plans for the future
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28. Questions?
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