WIDE VARIETY OF ANTI-FRAUD AND GRAFT LAWS IN EASTERN EUROPE – BUT LACK OF ENFORCEMENT A COMMON THEME
January 1st, 2013
THE COUNTRIES on either side of the European Union’s (EU) eastern frontier are plagued by corruption. All have anti-fraud laws that notionally empower authorities, but in reality efforts by scrupulous officials holding public office are all too often undermined by the disparity in punishments for similar offences in different countries, as well as the political appetite to pursue fraudsters.“Anti-bribery and corruption laws across the region [eastern Europe] vary by country,” reported Ernst & Young in its 2012 global fraud survey, “In several ...
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