Sunday, April 01, 2007

Portugal should be more active in tackling foreign bribery, says OECD


Portugal should raise awareness of foreign bribery in both the public and private sector and be more proactive in detecting, investigating and prosecuting cases of bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions, according to a report by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery. Given the broad range of Portugal’s international trading partners, including in countries where risks for corruption may be especially high, more investigations and prosecutions of foreign bribery would be expected.

The 36-country OECD Working Group on Bribery, in the context of its regular cycle of reviews, has just completed a review of Portugal’s enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.

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