Although the President is trying to portray the incident as an isolated act of corruption, many Peruvians are interpreting the scandal as a return to the late 1980s when corruption was endemic.
By all means, many believe, an enlarged and more representative civil society - ideally a larger, wider group of people from all over the country, not just a bunch of well meaning lawyers and activists from Delhi - should be putting pressure on a stubborn government to act against corruption.
Linsey plans to file at least one complaint under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations (RICO) act, alleging that Wal-Mart harbored and transported janitorial staff it knew were working illegally.
He said ordering a corruption fighting commission under the Moreland Act, which he threatened the Legislature with two years ago but didn't implement, is just one of several issues he's exploring.
Mr Hollande said a new national, specialist prosecutor would act on cases of fraud and corruption.
Microsoft is committed to observing the standards of conduct set forth in the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the applicable anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws of the countries in which we operate.
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Stronger enforcement of regulations would act as a deterrent and help reduce corruption levels.
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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 case has already created political quicksand for Republicans just as the mayoral race is heating up and might have a second act in Albany, where the investigation is reviving corruption as a hot-button concern after Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigned on pledges to rout it out.
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.
Asked whether it would ever be possible to prosecute a case under the 1925 Act, he said the law was "pretty straightforward" but any corruption case was always challenging as bargains made were never meant to come to light.
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But a so-called congressional page scandal, who failed to act before ABC broke the story, has gripped the American public in a way that money corruption has not.
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