This chapter covers bribery and corruption laws in the UK, including enforcement policies and activity, facilitation payments, investigations and more.
involving force or violence.38 F. A person who uses force, as permitted pursuant to the provisions of subsections B and D of this section, is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force. As used in this subsection, th...
Article 96Where a case involving a criminal suspect or defendant in custody cannot be closed within the period of custody during criminal investigation, period of examination and prosecution, or period of trial at first instance or second instance as set forth in this Law, the criminal suspect or...
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financial institutions may be subject to prior approval from the financial regulator, the FSC, for their outsourcing activities involving cloud-related services. Also, for some industries, customer data is prohibited from being transferred to China, such as telecommunications and broadcasting operators, ...
[xii] While it cannot charge individuals or corporations with offences, the ICAC has wide-ranging power to investigate “corrupt conduct” involving NSW public officials or public bodies/authorities. Reports following an investigation can be given to Parliament, the police, or be released publicly. ...
The police have opened 60 investigations into such cases, involving RM7.6mil in losses, as of June 15, Comm Ramli said. “One of the latest cases involves a 70-year-old retired factory worker in Johor who lost RM584,000 of his life savings after he received a call from scammers posing...
Furthermore, the FAA pre-empts any state law that attempts to deny or even limit the right of contracting parties to arbitrate disputes involving interstate commerce. The U.S. adopted the New York Convention and ratified the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Panama...
No administrative organ may disclose any government information involving state secrets, commercial secrets or individual privacy. But in case the obligee approves or the administrative organ believes that the failure to disclose such information would result in great influence on public interests, such ...
The POBO also covers corrupt transactions occurring in the private sector involving principals and agents. Under section 9 of the POBO, it is an offence for any person to offer any advantage to an agent to induce his certain actions in relation to his principal’s affairs or business without...