Monitoring - OpenTrial Anti-Bribery

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Building the rule of law & fighting corruption could help ward off worldwide recession:

William Hague, UK Foreign Secretary, affirms that: “Bribery is a modern day scourge on international trade. At a time when so many people are struggling through an economic downturn, bribery is a very real disease threatening our prosperity. It poses a serious challenge to the development of economies and contributes to market failure."

Monitoring

OPENTRIAL IS MONITORING COMPANIES FROM OECD ANTI-BRIBERY CONVENTION COUNTRIES TO HELP ENSURE FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN INDONESIA AND NIGERIA (INITIALLY) ARE GRAFT-FREE

In many developing countries it is ordinarily not possible for foreign companies to operate effectively without paying bribes to justice/law enforcement system officials. Because of this, OpenTrial - using its associates, informants, partners and information from litigious parties - is monitoring the activities of companies from the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention countries very closely and, where evidence exists showing they have transgressed their anti-foreign bribery legislation, reporting them to prosecutors in their home countries.

This is an essential step aimed at significantly curbing corrupt payments finding their way into the pockets of the police, judges and prosecutors in, initially, Indonesia and Nigeria, thereby undermining the rule of law in these countries.

This action will help ensure that if foreign companies are to trade with or invest in developing countries and not contravene their home country's anti-foreign bribery laws, they must enlist the assistance of their national governments to make representations aimed at ensuring due process of law and fair trials.Companies from OECD Anti-Bribery Convention countries that are under pressure to pay bribes are urged to formally request that their local embassy take up the matter of resisting requests for facilitation payments with the authorities. The embassy might suggest joint action, for example, with other EU/OECD/international donor missions, to increase the lobbying weight of the intervention.