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  • 26 May 2011
    What future for the Serious Fraud Office?

    There are whispers in Whitehall that a decision on the future of the Serious Fraud Office is imminent. The Home Office is considering rolling the Serious Fraud Office’s lawyers into the Crown Prosecution Service, while its investigators would be hived off into a new FBI-esque crime agency. And all this against the advice of most experts in the field.

  • 2 Apr 2011
    Facing up to (corporate) bribery

    In 2002 I was detained by police at Kochi airport in Kerala. It seemed I had failed to get a vital stamp on my passport. Having missed my flight back to the UK to attend my auntie’s wedding, I was told I had to, the next day, report to the police station, which I duly did.

  • 7 Feb 2011
    Government criticised for lack of action on bribery

    Major aid agencies are challenging the coalition government over its failure to implement the landmark Bribery Act for the second time.

  • 12 Apr 2010
    The challenge to global market power won't stop with the general election

    It feels like we're living in interesting times. Since Obama swept to power last year, it's as though the UK might be getting the message that enfranchisement is a precious right worth acting on. I'm not saying that Brown, Cameron or Clegg carry with them the hope and light of the 'Yes we can' roadshow, but perhaps the apathy of the past UK general elections will be thrown aside in favour of active participation.

  • 10 Apr 2010
    Next Government must show "high level commitment" to tackle bribery

    Campaigners say that new legislation passed by Parliament in the final days of business before the General Election campaign, sends an 'unequivocal message'.

  • 15 Dec 2009
    Britain must pass Bribery Bill to fight poverty, warn NGOs

    A range of British and international NGOs have urged politicians not to water down the Bribery Bill which was presented to the House of Lords last week. They insist that bribery is a “threat to development and democracy”.