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Bribery: The Ultimate Closing Technique?

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If you’re on the brink of closing a sale and the decision-maker stonewalls, what should you do? Lower your price? Add more products or services to the contract? Offer a bribe

Wal-Mart chief commits to ethical actions as bribery charges cast doubt

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WaL-MART Stores chief executive Mike Duke told employees and shareholders at the company’s annual meeting on Friday that the retailer, whose executives are accused of bribing Mexican officials, was committed to ethical behaviour. Speaking before

Transparency International’s Guidance on Anti-Bribery Due Diligence For Transactions

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Anti-bribery due diligence should be applied to all investments, but on a risk-based approach, with the level of due diligence being proportionate to the investment and the perceived likelihood of risk of bribery

Bribes gradually becoming legal for the Indian taxman

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Slowly, silently, the ethical norm that bribery should be illegal is giving way to the pragmatic idea that if you can’t avoid it, try and look the other way or even seek to gain

Executive fraud and bribery risks increase during downturn

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More than half of UK executives would not rule out unethical activities to survive a downturn despite stricter bribery laws, Ernst & Young’s 2012 Global Fraud Survey has shown. Ernst & Young’s 2012 Global

$600,000 bribery allegation: Lawan fights back

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Chairman, House of Representatives’ ad-hoc committee that probed the fuel subsidy regime, accused of collecting a $600,000 bribe from an oil marketer, Hon. Farouk Lawan yesterday fought back. He described the allegation as

High Tech and Corruption Risks

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Silicon Valley should take note. They are ripe for aggressive FCPA enforcement. The high-tech industry is a risk industry for bribery violations. Yet some say that the high-tech industry is behind

Bribery and Corruption – do we need to be worried?

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Transparency International released the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer just before Christmas. Included in the report was a statistic that was surprising to many – 4% of the 1291 New Zealand respondents reported paying a