The best example of this effort is the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in Germany, supported financially by private donation.

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But this year's turn to private money seems in line with other donation-based programs that have caught on elsewhere.

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But as no donation was ever handed over and all the disputed conversations were in private yachts and villas in Corfu, it is hard to see what form of investigation will actually take place.

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