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Tag Archives: whistleblowing

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims

UK Government’s Response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills “Whistleblowing Framework: Call For Evidence”

Crucially businesses should be confident that reprisals against whistle-blowers are not an issue for them, and that their organisation understands and trusts any whistleblowing policy and procedure they have in place. Deficiencies in these areas may very well lead to a Regulator challenging the overall effectiveness and adequacy of an organisations compliance programme.… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims

US Securities and Exchange Commission Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program 2011

We, at the BriberyLibary, follow this new program with great interest as we are of the view that financial incentives and compensation designed to encourage people with knowledge and evidence to come forward to blow the whistle on corporate corruption (and other legal wrongs) should be seriously considered in the UK without delay… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends

Identifying and Resolving Fraud and Corruption Cases in the US and the UK: PART III (Rewards for Whistleblowers)

In our last blog, we addressed the importance - and benefits - of voluntarily disclosing instances of fraud or corruption to appropriate US and/or UK regulators. Of course, corporates do not always have the opportunity to identify and voluntarily disclose instances of fraud or corruption before an enterprising insider blows the whistle on some potential violation.… Continue Reading
Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends

Self reporting under the Bribery Act: Why only ten companies so far?

Incentives to self report are a major part of effective anti-corruption enforcement in the US and the Guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice attempts to lay the groundwork for a similar culture of self reporting in the UK. But, absent the same freedom to engage in plea bargaining that its US counterpart, the Department of Justice, enjoys, does the Serious Fraud Office have the tools to incentivise self reporting sufficiently?… Continue Reading

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