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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance
Briefings

Briefings

Under-Criminalisation of Foreign Bribery in Asia Pacific

1 March 2012

Countries signing on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) are required to enact laws to criminalise bribery of foreign public officials. All of the Asia Pacific countries (except North Korea) have signed the UNCAC, and yet, only a small minority of them have enacted a specific criminal offense covering bribery of foreign public officials.

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