Importance of Mexico in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act enforcement.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Blonval
Keyword(s):  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Foreign Corrupt Practice

Rebuilding an Empire

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 255-272
Author(s):  
Ligia Maura Costa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Corrupt Practice

From modest beginnings, the conglomerate Odebrecht became one of the most relevant actors of development for Brazil and Latin America. By 2010, the conglomerate was elected the best family business in the world. Annual revenues rose from US$ 24 billion in 2008 to US$ 41.8 billion in 2014. However, by 2015 Odebrecht was in a very different situation, embroiled in a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal. To illegally secure more than 100 projects, Odebrecht had paid approximately US$ 788 million in bribes across 12 countries. Corruption was not new in Latin America, but so many powerful people facing jail time in the region certainly was. In 2016, Odebrecht agreed to pay a record breaking fine of US$ 2.6 billion for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. This case describes Odebrecht’s corruption scandal, touching on possible causes, the company’s handling of the criminal allegations, and probable defenses to protect against future setbacks.

scholarly journals Rethinking corruption in contemporary African philosophy: Old wine cannot fit

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeka A. Ndaguba ◽  
Onyinye J. Ndaguba ◽  
Michel M. Tshiyoyo ◽  
Kgothatso B. Shai
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

To conceive the notion of corruption presupposes the existence of corrupt individuals, groups or organisations. The existence of corrupt individuals, groups or organisations you might say presupposes the presence of an entity. Every entity (i.e. state or corporate) has laid down procedures, processes and methods of doings and functioning. When these procedures and processes are negated, one could be accused of subversion. Subversion is an element in the definition of administrative corruption and is the unwillingness to follow stipulated plans of actions. An action that negates procedures falls under corrupt practice. This article will answer the following research questions: How has corruption been framed and perceived and what are the underlining consequences in Africa? In what ways, if any, has the prevailing perception of corruption undermined and understated the notion of corruption in Africa? In what ways can a remedial be conceived in the fight to make Africa free of corruption? And finally: How can Kleptoafronia be conceived as a panacea for corruption in the continent? This article uses themes and narrative analysis in the qualitative realm to provide answers to the research questions. Over 500 scholarly materials were read and scanned from journal articles, Internet sources, textbooks and several academic indexes to provide evidence for the arguments in this article from five disciplinary standpoints: political science, public administration, criminology, psychology and medical sciences. This article is a conceptual article that tends to demonstrate that corruption in Africa is a psych-administrative disorder termed – Kleptoafronia.

scholarly journals The Problems Of Perfecting Of Anticorruption Legislation And Activity Of Law-Enforcement Agencies On Struggle With Corrupt Practice In The Regions Of Siberia And The Central Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 918-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny S. Dubonosov ◽  
Natalia V. Bugaevskaya ◽  
Tat’iana S. Volchetskaia ◽  
Valery N. Vlasenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Central Russia

The purpose of this study is multidisciplinary research of the amendments to anti-corruption criminal-legal norms connected with crimes of corruption. By the example of statistics, judiciary and work practices of operational division in the regions of Siberia and the Central Russia norm application in questions of small-sized bribery are discussed together with unsystematic nature of its introduction to criminal law undermining justice principle. This study analyses criminal law cases connected with criminalization of corruption actions in the domain of purchases of goods, works, and services for supplying of state or municipal necessities. This article supports the idea of necessity of struggle with provocation of the bribe or bribery, including operational units realized by employees. Differences of operational experiment conducted for registration of corruption action, and provocation of the bribe or bribery are indicated

scholarly journals The Roots of African Corruption

2006 ◽  
Vol 105 (691) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Standard Mode

In broad swaths of Africa many types of corrupt practice are not the deviant behavior of a small minority—they are a standard mode of transacting political and financial business.

The “Employment Deal” Category and the Problem of Contestation of Legal Acts that Determine Content of the Wage Labor Relations

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Vladimir Boldyryev
Keyword(s):  
Labor Relations ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Partner Relations

The author proves that the existence of common problems associated with the need to invalidate employment contracts, apprenticeship agreements with employers, agreements on full material liability, and the desirability of legislative assumptions to contest collective agreements (local regulations) in whole or in part, does not indicate that they should be merged under the collective name of the “employment deal”. The author justifies that the core area of focus to resolve current problems related to corrupt practice during the adoption of local regulations, as part of social-partner relations among other things, should belong to a different domain — in legislative specialization of bodies competent to adopt (coordinate, approve) them, in particular, in transfer of relevant powers by discretionary rules of legislation to supreme corporate bodies of legal entities. The author proposes to enshrine in the law the rule on subsidiary application of the civil legislation on the invalidity of transactions to labour relations.

Corrupt Practice Among Public Servants–Some Observations

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-525
Author(s):  
P.C. Hota
Keyword(s):  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Public Servants

Electoral Juggling: A Comparative History of the Corruption of Suffrage in Latin America, 1830–1930

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDUARDO POSADA-CARBÓ
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Different Types ◽  
American Elections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electoral Corruption

This article examines, from a comparative perspective, those electoral practices labelled as ‘corrupt’ in Latin America between 1830 and 1930, in order to gain a fuller appreciation of the significant role played by elections in the history of the region. The article starts by using the term ‘electoral corruption’ in its general sense, as often used by contemporaries themselves when referring to the various practices that, in their view, distorted the vote, and therefore the meaning of suffrage. From this general definition, the article moves on to distinguish between the different types of corrupt practice, with the aim of identifying the extent to which they affected electoral competition. By offering a revision of the assumptions that have hitherto served to undermine the historical meaning of the suffrage, this article aims to encourage the study of electoral history in the region. The examination of electoral corruption is therefore preceded by a brief survey of the historiography of Latin American elections.

Public Policy in Constitutional Reform

1945 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
Merit System ◽  
Direct Primary

Not Many years ago most political scientists accepted the proposition that it is the spirit and tradition of a political system rather than its structure that informs and governs its operation. We may regard such a proposition as a truism; yet its acceptance came in the wake of what might be called the “second era” of democratic reform in the United States. That era had seen the destruction of the old system of making nominations and the rise of party regulation, the adoption of direct primary elections, and of other devices for direct government, such as the initiative, referendum and recall. It had seen, likewise, the enactment of corrupt practice acts, the growth of the merit system in the choice of civil service personnel, the turn to the popular election of United States senators, attempts at administrative reorganization and other devices for increasing the voter's control over his government.

Corrupt Practice Laws

1911 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-577
Author(s):  
S. Gale Lowrie
Keyword(s):  
Corrupt Practice
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