Then there is the peculiar paucity of British “sanctions” imposed under an international bribery convention: two between 1999 and 2009, compared with 88 in America, 26 in Germany and 40 in Italy.

因此国际贿赂协议对英国的约束力就罕见的微弱，在1999年和2009年之间只有2项受到制裁，相较而言美国有88项，德国26项，意大利40项。

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International Business Machines (IBM) has agreed to a settlement in a bribery case filed by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).

国际商用电机公司(IBM)已经同意了由美国证券交易委员会(SEC)提出的贿赂事件的解决方案。

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Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.

压力团体“透明国际(Transparency International)”表示，自从缔结“经合组织合约”之后，贿赂已经开始减少。

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Certainly the international regulatory environment is changing more governments now are cracking down much harder on foreign bribery,".

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Chandrashekhar Krishnan, executive director of Britain's anti-corruption agency Transparency International, says in the past Britain has been slow to bring legal action in bribery cases.

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But, as cynics may argue, it does not address the systemic weaknesses in international anti-bribery efforts, namely inconsistent enforcement by exporting states.

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Few people realized that John Hancock was a sponsor of the Olympics before the bribery scandal involving the International Olympic Committee surfaced in late 1998.

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The findings are consistent with headlines implicating companies around the globe in a wide range of wrongdoing, including electronics giant Siemens (bribery), York International, now part of Johnson Controls (foreign corrupt practices), Beazer Homes (accounting irregularities) and Biomet (kickbacks to doctors).

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