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The Case of Public Administration Investigation

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In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Norway, suspicion of misconduct occurred related to allocation and management of grants. This chapter presents an evaluation of work by internal investigators at the Central Control Unit in the Ministry.

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    Petter Gottschalk

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Gottschalk, P. (2018). The Case of Public Administration Investigation. In: Investigating White-Collar Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68916-6_11

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