President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), criminalising demand-side bribery by foreign officials

FEPA makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand bribes from U.S. citizens, companies, or anyone in the U.S. to gain or keep business. Before FEPA, existing laws like the FCPA focused on punishing bribes offered to foreign officials, not demands made by them. The new law fills this gap, aiming to prevent corruption by foreign officials seeking bribes from individuals…