INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LEADERS PUSH FOR GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION ACTION
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN another sign of attitude shifts towards global standards on commercial crime, a group of international business leaders have called on governments to do more in fighting corruption. Executives from 27 companies ranging from Britain's Anglo American and Sweden's IKEA, to EADS France, the USA's General Electric Company and India's Tata signed the letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. They called for proper implementation of the 2003 UN Convention against Corruption, notably the creation of "an effective review mechanism" to back ...
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