FRENCH LAW RESTRICTS OVERSEAS CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS: EXPERTS
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been pressured to lift a reservation to the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption which allows it to permit its companies to bribe foreign officials. The council's anti-corruption group GRECO notes that France "reserves the right not to [criminalise] trading in influence to exert an influence over...a foreign public official or...foreign public assembly." A GRECO report said: "France has severely restricted its jurisdiction and its ability to prosecute cases with an international ...
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