Bribery and Corruption

A Legal Update For Commercial Organisations And The 'Adequate Procedures' Defence

https://www.mishcon.com/news/articles/failing-to-prevent-bribery

Watch the recent bribery and corruption update webinar the Fraud Advisory Panel held in conjunction with the ICAEW Business and Management Faculty (20 mins)

https://www.fraudadvisorypanel.org/resources/bribery-corruption-webinar/

A new crackdown is being launched by the UK’s competition authority amidst a 30% rise in the number of tip offs about cartels.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-campaign-targets-cartels-as-tip-offs-rise-by-third

Conflicts of interest come in all shapes and sizes. They can be as big as bribery and criminal corruption or as small as receiving a little “something extra” in the course of your job.

http://www.globalethicssolutions.com/articles/2018/01/23/whose-best-interest-gifts-keep-giving/

The Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100. A score of 0 is highly corrupt while 100 is very clean.

http://www.cityam.com/281060/these-have-just-been-ranked-worlds-most-and-least-corrupt

This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an effort to speak out.

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

Boris Johnson is to come under pressure this week to target Russian officials involved in corruption and human rights abuses with a tough new sanctions regime akin to co-ordinated measures taken by the US and Canada.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/18/borisjohnson-pressed-toughen-sanctions-against-russians-accused/

Petrofac back in the dock after it announced the Serious Fraud Office had widened its investigation into suspected bribery and corruption at the oilfield services firm.

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/serious-fraud-office-widens-its-investigation-into-petrofac-as-the-ftse-100-sinks-a3758241.html

The European Commission slaps the chipmaker with a penalty of $1.2bn

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735599-european-commission-slaps-chipmaker-penalty-12bn-qualcomm-fined

MP demands the resignation of Sandwell Council leader and urges the Government to step in and end 'incompetence, corruption and cronyism' at the authority

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sandwell-council-accused-incompetence-corruption-14203995