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Grant Thornton: New bribery and corruption regulations cast a global net, expose Canadian companies to risk
Grant Thornton LLP today released Anti-corruption legislation casts a global net; Don’t get caught because you don’t know the rules, a white paper designed to help globally-active Canadian companies navigate an increasingly complex web
Read More »Lack of anti-bribery and corruption measures
Top investment professionals lack anti-bribery and corruption due diligence procedures, a recent survey suggested. Only two out of 80 financial services firms had undertaken anti-bribery and corruption due diligence in an M&A transaction, said business
Read More »Transparency International issues Anti-Bribery guidance on due diligence for Transactions
Transparency International ("TI") has issued guidance for anti-bribery due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and investments (the "Guidance"). The Guidance is intended to provide a practical tool for companies undertaking anti-bribery and corruption ("ABC")
Read More »Rooting Out Corruption … in the United States?
On June 11, the United States government filed a complaint documenting a record of corruption as outlandish as anything seen since Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos plundered the Philippines in the 1980s. The complaint detailed
Read More »Industry doubts Bribery Act enforcer’s appetite for prosecution
The lack of a corporate prosecution under the UK Bribery Act has caused businesses to question the Serious Fraud Office's appetite for enforcement, Ernst & Young has found. The Ernst & Young Global Fraud Survey
Read More »Real World Challenges under the FCPA and Bribery Act
Last week I wrote a fictional piece about some of the challenges that a company might face in complying with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Unfortunately some of the concepts I wrote about
Read More »Bill aims to tackle corrupt practices
THE MINISTER for Justice and Equality recently published the draft scheme of the Criminal Justice (Corruption) Bill 2012, 123 years after the enactment of the statute that is the basis of our current law. In
Read More »Santa Fe Springs official agrees to plead guilty to receiving bribes
A federal corruption investigation spread to a second city Thursday when a Santa Fe Springs councilman agreed to plead guilty to receiving bribes from the owner of a medical marijuana store. Joseph Serrano Sr. will
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