Facilitation Payments: A business integrity officer’s perspective

In the second of her regular series of articles on bribery and corruption issues, Andrea Bonime-Blanc considers the thorny issue of facilitation payments, how they are used, and if they are acceptable

By Andrea Bonime-Blanc
www.ethicalcorp.com, December 16, 2009

More than thirty years after the inception of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA), twelve years after the signing of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of 1997, and half a decade since the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption of 2004, one of the still grey areas in the anti-corruption debate is the topic of whether “facilitation payments” should be made. Read More.