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OECD Reports on Combating Bribery of Public Officials
The Phase 3 report on the UK by the OECD Working Group on Bribery evaluates and makes recommendations on the UK's implementation and enforcement of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments. The report...
UK increases enforcement of foreign bribery.
The United Kingdom has significantly boosted its foreign bribery enforcement efforts but needs to be more transparent when resolving cases. The opaque process and low level of information available about settlements may fail to instil public and judicial...
Another Berlusconi Trial Collapses
A court in Milan has thrown out charges during a trial against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, ruling that the statute of limitations is applicable in the case. Berlusconi was charged with paying bribe to a British citizen for giving false evidence in court to safeguard his...
Judicial Bribery: Keeping The Bench In Order.
The UK is not the only country experiencing difficulties with a court staff bribery case. The instances of judicial bribery rarely surface in the UK but many other countries suffer from episodes which seriously damage reputation, especially at a local level. A recent twist involves the New...
GlaxoSmithKline + Astra Zeneca in Bribery Allegation
It may not be a UK Bribery Act investigation but the SFO has been reminded that pharmaceutical companies are prime targets in the anti-bribery movement. U.K. pharmaceutical firms GlaxoSmithKline PLC and AstraZeneca PLC are facing a corruption investigation in the U.S. over claims that the...
Deferred Prosecution Agreements
I could not let the moment pass without commenting on some of the UK- DPA stories floating around at the moment. We get the impression that DPAs are common in the US, when they have only been available for a fairly short period. Just as quite a few countries have a rose tinted view of what...
Blatter Announces FIFA Anti-Corruption Initiative
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has announced a number of measures to combat corruption in football and help clean up the game's image following the presidential election bribery scandal which rocked the governing body in June. From Reuters:-
Blatter, who was re-elected unopposed as...
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