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5/25/2009
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
In a nutshell... from Law.com

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1/27/2009
For Corporations, Can Honesty Be a Profitable Policy?
A discussion of Siemens, BAE, OFAC and how regulation can be good for business, brought to you by the chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory, a Research Fellow at the Basel Institute on Governance. Courtesy of Forbes of all places.

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9/15/2008
Global Anti-Bribery Regime Begins to Take Shape
Finally getting serious about enforcing OFAC in the U.S. Not letting corporations write of their bribes as tax deductions in Europe - it's a whole new world out there!

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7/11/2007
U.S. Regultors Ramping Up Prosecution of Foreign Firms
A recent Kroll report, cited in the FT shows a trend of the U.S. Department of Justice going after an increasingly broad array of foreign firms based on corrupt business practices. The traditional real of these probes would be oil companies, defense contrractors and the like, but the field of pursuit has widened considerably over the period from 2000 to 2006 to include telecom companies, pharmaceutical and consumer products manufacturers. Check out Kroll's press release and take a look at the full Kroll report right here.

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