UK GOVERNMENT AGREES TO CONSIDER CENTRALISED BRIBERY REPORTING
May 1st, 2019
THE BRITISH government has agreed to consider setting up a centralised bribery reporting mechanism in response to a key recommendation from the UK’s upper parliamentary house, the House of Lords in its report on the effectiveness of the 2010 Bribery Act. It said it “commends” a Home Office decision to assess options to deliver such a system. The government has also said it will not legalise, so-called ‘facilitation payments’ by companies to foreign officials to encourage them to handle standard administrative procedures – these are allowed under US ...
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