SWITZERLAND FALLING SHORT ON BRIBERY, SAYS OECD WORKING GROUP
July 30th, 2022
Switzerland continues to fall short on combating foreign bribery and should urgently take concrete steps to adopt key legislative reforms, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery. It said in a July 20 public statement (1) it is “very concerning” that Switzerland still has not adopted longstanding legislative reforms it first recommended in 2011 (2) in an assessment of Swiss implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention (3), notably on protection for private sector whistleblowers. This ...
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