Britain's Bribery Act, passed last year, was the culmination of a decade of peer pressure (see article).
The DOJ has also charged private-sector bribery (and charged it before the UK Bribery Act made it popular).
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The warnings follow the introduction earlier this year of the Bribery Act, widely described as the most stringent anti-corruption legislation in the world.
The Conservative-led council confirmed it had referred Mr Brown's comments to the police under the Bribery Act 2010 and its own policy on fraud, theft and anti-corruption.
Conservative led East Devon District Council referred Mr Brown's comments to the police under the Bribery Act 2010 and its own policy on fraud, theft and anti-corruption.
The 1889 act, which was repealed when the Bribery Act 2010 came into effect, outlawed the bribery of a member, officer or a servant of a public body.
The aim of the Bribery Act was to make sure that British companies were not throwing millions of dollars at officials and dictators elsewhere in order to gain business.
The risk of prosecution under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars bribery of foreign officials, also looms in the shadows.
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In fact, Congress has passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that bars companies who engage in bribery overseas from competing for United States government programs.
More typically, the news on this front swirls around global corporations and the record-setting fines (and criminal penalties) levied against companies that fall afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits bribery of foreign officials.
For international oil companies it has become even more difficult to stay on the right side of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. law forbidding bribery of foreign officials.
Hardly any European country of note has a law against bribery and corruption similar to American legislation which makes it a criminal act for American companies to offer inducements when tendering for contracts abroad.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which came into force in 1977, was unique in criminalizing the bribery of foreign public officials and requiring American companies to meet bribery-related accounting and auditing standards.
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