US Could Jail Foreign Officials Under New Bribery Law - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper - Empowering Global Vision, Empathizing with India

Anticorruption activists around the world have high hopes for a new U.S. law that for the first time allows Washington to prosecute foreign officials who receive bribes. The law broadens the enforcement profile of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has long been used to punish companies that pay bribes and their shadowy agents.…

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