Inquisition Called by Senate

By Anthony Wisterly

An official inquisition was ordered by the Senate today to investigate the accusations that Hindopian Ambassador to the World Assembly, Vargas Harrowsing, has been embezzling money from the government.

Harrowsing was accused by Senator Bellcross, an independent senator, after her office received information from an unnamed source saying that Harrowsing has been transferring money from the Office of Diplomatic Affairs' WA Ambassador's Account, the account used to fund the mission to the WA ( such as covering transport, food, essentials etc), to a privately owned offshore account in The Incorporated States of Consergro.

Consergro has one of the strictest policies guarding foreign held bank accounts in the world. No application by any entity in the world to look into a foreign held account has ever been successful. Political analyst Jerry Wads says that it doesn't look like that pattern is going to change now.
"The Consergrian Government is run by a corporate entity, and as such protects it's customer's, especially it's rich foreign customer's, private accounts zealously. It would simply be a waste for the government to spend money on a diplomatic effort, because it will never work."

Harrowsing responded to the Senator's accusations earlier today, saying that the claim is entirely fictitious. He challenged her to provide any evidence that the money was transferred to that account, or to prove that if any money was transferred then to show that he himself received any of it as financial gain.
"Senator Benton's claim is not true. I never transferred any money from the OoDA account for personal financial gain. The only money I ever authorize transferred is money used to pay for the expense of representing this country in the World Assembly."

The inquisition will investigate the validity of the accusations and if it finds any truth to them it will begin a full investigation.
The inquisition is run by a committee whose members are appointed by the Senate. The committee, named the Inquisitorial Committee, has the authority to lay criminal charges if it finds a basis for them.

The IC will begin it's investigation after the Senate has convened in an emergency session next week.