UK FAILS TO PROTECT FOREIGN BRIBERY PROBES FROM POLITICAL INTERFERENCE, SAYS OECD
March 1st, 2019
The UK is still failing to protect foreign bribery investigations from undue interference and ensure the independence of investigations, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD’s) working group on bribery. It is a conclusion the British government – currently ensnared in Brexit-related chaos - refutes. A follow up report two years on from a March 2017 phase 4 visit, checking British implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, found particular failings in applying the Convention’s Article 5 , which requires ...
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