OECD SAYS ITALY ANTI-BRIBERY EFFORTS TOO WEAK AND TOO SLOW, WHILE JAPAN, SWISS WEAK ON FOREIGN BRIBES
January 1st, 2012
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from the anti-bribery working group of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has attacked Italy over the tardiness and weakness of its anti-bribery efforts. While, the paper did recommend that the organised-crime ridden country had made "significant enforcement efforts" through its "comprehensive framework for prosecuting the foreign bribery offence", these efforts were insufficient. That is because the "vast majority of the cases prosecuted are dismissed as time barred" ...
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