Berlin, 24 June 2008

Less than half of OECD governments enforce foreign bribery prohibition.

More than ten years after adoption of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, there is a dangerous stalemate on enforcement, according to a new report released today by Transparency International (TI).
 
The 2008 Progress Report on Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions found that enforcement was stepped up in only two member states over 2007, meaning that less than half of the signatory states are living up to their commitments. The Convention broke new ground in 1999 by finally criminalising foreign bribery, which, until then, had even been tax deductible in some countries.