# We need to talk about undisclosed financial interests

**URL:** <https://gov.optimism.io/t/we-need-to-talk-about-undisclosed-financial-interests/6424>\
**Category:** Metagovernance\
**Tags:** season-4\
**Created:** [July 10, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/we-need-to-talk-about-undisclosed-financial-interests/6424 "2023-07-10T15:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![lee0007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lee0007](https://gov.optimism.io/u/lee0007)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/we-need-to-talk-about-undisclosed-financial-interests/6424/39 "2023-07-14T04:43:30Z")

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> [@lee0007](#):
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> 1.1.5 What enforcement action applies if there is this type of breach?

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> 1.2.4 What enforcement action applies if there is this type of breach?

> [@lee0007](#):
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> What is the enforcement action? i.e First Warning?

It’s not the first time [COI raises queries](https://gov.optimism.io/t/conflicts-of-interest-request-for-opinions/3350) 100℅ it won’t be the last.

I’ve had several conversations in the discord and forum around defining conflicts of interest [(RFPG2)](https://gov.optimism.io/t/conflicts-of-interest-request-for-opinions/3350) and it remains unclear, with rather different approaches.

Could you help clarify?

Humans make mistakes, we have different interpretation of policy. Given the Foundation is defining the policy here it would be helpful to me (& may be helpful to others) to understand what enforcement action /resulting penalty applies if/when

- conflicts of interest are not disclosed
- delegates approve and/or vote on ‘own proposals’

I understand consequences may vary, subject to situational context. So using this situation as the applied example - could you share with us please the enforcement penalty that would apply for this situation IF reported and proven.

Is the enforcement action / penalty simply a warning or something more serious?? Is it different for say approval and voting vs COI??

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