Swedish Man Tests UK's Security(Sweden, UK)
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by Emerick
Category: Economy, Politics
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Yesterday and today, [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/profile-138641.html]Lakrisa [/a], who originally signed on as a UK citizen, swindled 3000£ from the UK government and then moved to his home country of Sweden, wrote a series of articles describing how he did it.
He outlines the entire incident in his newspaper, [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/company-31942.html]Lakrisal News[/a], in three short articles. In these articles he explains how he signed on as a UK citizen, joined their forums as a UK citizen, got appointed as Health Minister and then promptly moved to Sweden with the money.
[a url=http://www.erepublik.com/profile-12690.html]Final Destiny[/a], Vice President of the UK's Unity Party issued this statement on [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/forum-topic-17341.html]the forums[/a]:
"I can confirm this happened. Once again I would like to thank the Swedish government for returning the money."
"As Vice-President of The Unity Party I can confirm we are reviewing the whole government structure so this we can avoid this situation in the future."
This is a great example of the short comings of the eRepublik system, and also the importance of writing contracts. Although the Swedish government eventually returned the money to the UK and issued an official apology, we can't forget that we're running on the honor system.
-Emerick
PS- I can't find the official apology from Sweden. If anyone can find it and post it here, that'd be helpful.
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Good article O_o
Just goes to show that you can\'t be too careful..
Made a few edits: I forgot to proofread this; fixed some spelling errors and put in FD\'s quote.
Freaking spies
The apology is in the comments of Lakirisal\'s first article.
Well, as a Swede I am ashamed that the sitting President of Sweden did apologize for this, even if it wasn\'t our fault this happened. The deed was made of a single person with right to donate his money to where he want them (Sweden). The right person to apologize for this is Kaleb, the so called sitting President of United Kingdom who appointed this Lakrisal to Health Minister of fakking UNITED KINGDOM!!! Yeah, I think this is a joke... The whole Government of kUK!
This issue have been solved and as president of Sweden I offer our sincerest apologies.
http://www.erepublik.com/article-154242.html
In the comments from Carradine.
Viewpoint: Name is actually Lakrisal. I dont know if Sweden is his home country. He never stated that. He simply said he registered in the UK, then moved to Sweden. I could be wrong.
As far as I know, this was an error in judgement, not necessarily in the game\'s mechanics though. Kaleb and the government appointed him, and he \"stole\" money that he had access to. While it is immoral and corrupt, I am not sure it really violated any laws. From what I have seen Kaleb and the entire Gov including FD are looking to implement a checks and balances system to ensure that this doesnt happen again. Kaleb apologized as well for his err.