At the beginning of October 2012, the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") issued a revised guidance signaling a marked change in its attitude to prosecutions under the Bribery Act. read more
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Solicitor, Majed Iqbal, has been sentenced to jail for five years for bribing witnesses in a Crown Court trial in which his client faced charges of fraud. read more
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The former Prime Minister of Croatia, Ivo Sanader has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for accepting bribes during his time in office from 2003-2009. read more
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Siemens has agreed to pay around €270 million in settlement of a claim relating to bribing Greek officials. read more
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The governments of Japan, Italy and Switzerland have been criticised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for not doing enough to fight bribery of foreign officials. read more
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We’d like to welcome you to our new firm, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. On August 15, the law firms of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon announced they would officially merge on October 1 – and here we are! read more
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The effect of the new Bribery Act will be felt for the first time two months after coming into force, albeit in a different way than many most anticipated. read more
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The law of bribery in England and Wales is widely regarded as outdated and uncertain. The Government has been under significant international pressure to revise and simplify the law, in particular from the Working Group responsible for monitoring compliance with the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, to which the United Kingdom is signatory. read more
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After Transparency International observed local elections in five towns in the Czech Republic last autumn, they were repeated following suspected manipulation. read more
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), an arm of the United States Department of Justice, made over 130 arrests in Puerto Rico for drug trafficking charges on October 6, 2010. read more
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A corruption charge has been brought against a senior official in Malaysia's Sime Darby. read more
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The Anti-Corruption Court in Indonesia has convicted Judge Ibrahim of bribery and has sentenced him to a six year prison sentence. read more
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President Medvedev has approved new plans developed to tackle corruption in Russia. Novel methods include a 'multiplier-fine' for bribe-takers, based on the size of the bribe. It is believed that such a move would be easier to enforce by law than the confiscation of property. read more
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New reports on the implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption have been adopted in respect of Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago by a committee of anti-corruption experts of the Organization of American States (OAS) (for more information about the OAS, see below). read more
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