The Act establishes that Brazilian companies and companies operating in Brazil can be held civilly liable for bribery, concealing assets, interfering with public procurement processes or investigations.
In the UK, a commercial organisation will be guilty of bribery if a person associated with the organisation bribes another person. However, the commercial organisation will have a defence if they had adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery.
Between 1996 and 2007 employees at Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, arranged for the company to pay bribes to win contracts from Iraq’s government in the United Nations oil-for-food program. Corrupt payments were also made to ensure that the company won bids for commuter rail projects in Venezuela, mobile-phone networks in Bangladesh, power plants in […]
The guide provides an in-depth review of anti-corruption legislation in OECD countries, outlining several countries where it’s a criminal offence not to set up corruption prevention measures in an organisation.
In this case, a public official who worked in the Customs and Excise Department was investigated by an anti-corruption agency and convicted for having a disproportionate amount of assets when compared to his disclosed salary (see illicit enrichment above). He was sentenced to 2 years in prison and was suspended from his position. The accused […]
The Criminal Code defines fraud as a false representation of facts with the intent to obtain an unlawful benefit from public funds or institutions.
This act imposes penalties to whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable property out of the possession of any person without that person’s consent, moves that property in order to such taking.
Canadian Criminal Code (s139): This provides criminal punishment where one attempts or uses corrupt means to persuade someone from giving evidence or influence a juror in court proceedings.
Section 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (India): This states that a crime will be committed where a public servant is or has been in possession of a property or money that he or she cannot satisfactorily account for and that is disproportionate to the income of the public servant.
Colombian Penal Code (Código Penal Colombiano) (articles 416 and 417): This states that the crime of abuse of functions will be committed when a public servant or any authority abuses his or her position or law knowledge to obtain a private gain. It also creates a crime of omission, where a public servant has knowledge of an […]
