USA ASKED TO CONSIDER EXTENDING STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR BRIBERY
November 1st, 2010
BY KEITN NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has been asked to consider extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting foreign bribery offences. The call comes in a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development's (OECD) Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. Whist generally lauding America's efforts to crack down on its business community's bribing of foreign officials, the report asks Washington to "ensure that the overall limitation period applicable to the foreign bribery offence is sufficient to allow ...
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