Sunday, October 08, 2006

China and India 'top bribe list'


Firms from China and India are most willing to pay bribes abroad to do business, a survey suggests.

Anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) put the two countries at the top of its Bribe Payers' Index of 30 exporting nations.

French and Italian firms were named as the worst culprits for paying bribes in low-income countries.

TI said its survey showed that efforts to introduce anti-corruption laws had yet to slow the problem.

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