ANTI-FRAUD LACKS A FORMAL WORLD BODY, ALTHOUGH SPECIALISTS VALUE CRIME LAW HARMONISATION
January 7th, 2015
Bribing public officials is part of the regular cut-and-thrust of doing business in some parts of the world. Russia stands out, of course. Similarly some 28% of respondents in Singapore thought it was acceptable for companies to "misstate" their financial performance if it helped them, says EY in its 13th Global Fraud Survey. Clearly bribery and false accounting - crimes in some countries - carry no stigma at all in others.A global authority, along the lines of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for money laundering or the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for ...
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