Recently by Sareena M. Sawhney
Use Caution - Foreign Agents Ahead: Per the FCPA, third-party compliance with anti-bribery provisions is under scrutiny
In a recent case, a four-company joint venture used two agents – a British lawyer and a Japanese trading company – to bribe Nigerian government officials in order to win natural gas construction projects. Together, the four multinational corporations and the Japanese trading...
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Corruption Knows No Borders: FCPA compliance is not just an emerging market concern
Transparency International, a global coalition against corruption, publishes an index that measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. The 175 countries are ranked on a scale from zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Only two countries (Denmark and New Zealand) rank...
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