Sorry for making it difficult guys, but we are not planning to make it easier........on the contrary!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Bribery is not what it used to be: these days it is too much like hard work. The man in the safari suit can no longer just hand over a bagful of cash; corruption has had to get creative.
Paying for prostitutes is obviously outré, and Swiss bank accounts are so 1970s. For most even half-reputable US multinationals, paying a bribe these days means evading armies of accountants and auditors, deceiving dozens of lawyers and compliance officers, and fooling the born-again anti-bribery fundamentalists who enforce America’s dreaded Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (not to mention the Chinese or Nigerian fraud squads).
For oil companies in some countries, there may be no reasonable alternative to bakshish; but other companies in other countries must ask themselves: is corruption worth the cost? This is not a moral question – on a strict calculus of risks and rewards, bribery may be too high a cost of doing business.
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