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OECD urges Portugal to swiftly implement long-standing foreign bribery recommendations
This report presents the Working Group on Bribery’s summary and conclusions on Portugal’s progress on its implementation of Phase 4
recommendations, its foreign bribery enforcement actions, and developments related to the follow-up issues. It was adopted by the OECD
Working Group on Bribery during its plenary meeting on 8-11 October 2024.
EU is finalising its first Anti-Corruption Directive, focusing on public and private sector accountability and corporate liability, with the EP set to finalise this landmark law
The Directive is poised to significantly impact financial crime compliance across both the public and private sectors, while strengthening broader efforts to tackle corruption. The key highlights proposes a mechanism for removing immunity from high-level officials in cases of serious criminal offenses, introduces corporate liability for failing to prevent bribery and corruption…
GRECO finds that Slovenia has made insufficient progress in implementing anti-corruption recommendations in latest compliance report
Report states that tangible actions are required on an integrity plan for the government, managing conflicts of interests and carrying out substantive checks of asset declarations.
OECD reports that Austria has made important progress in the enforcement of the foreign bribery offence but it must improve its framework for the implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention
The Working Group recommends that, among other things, Austria: clarify interpretative issues related to the foreign bribery offence and the corporate liability regime, address a concern regarding the statute of limitations to allow adequate time for investigation and prosecution, proactively pursue criminal charges against legal persons, urgently take meaningful steps to revise the current framework to shield prosecutors from undue interference prohibited under Article 5 of the Anti-Bribery Convention…
OECD WG on Bribery reports that Romania is progressing in implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention but needs to improve its foreign bribery legislation and detection mechanisms
The 46-country OECD Working Group on Bribery has just completed its Phase 2 evaluation of Romania’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and recommends that Romania: amend its foreign bribery offence to fully align it with the Convention, increase sanctions available in foreign bribery cases and ensure that proceeds can be confiscated ,develop a strategy for detecting and reporting foreign bribery cases, clarify and enhance its foreign bribery whistleblowing framework…
EPPO Luxembourg assumes control of an investigation into procurement fraud linked to a political party
EPPO in Luxembourg has taken over an investigation from the Luxembourg State Prosecutor into a political party suspected of procurement fraud, document forgery, and ML. This inquiry stemming from a spring 2023 audit, focuses on two contracts awarded to the party by the Luxembourgish National Reception Office in 2016 and 2017, aimed at developing a language translation tool for refugees…
OECD publishes two-year follow-up on Italy’s progress in implementing the Anti-Bribery Convention
The report described Italy’s efforts to implement the 48 recommendations and to address the follow-up issues identified during its Phase 4 evaluation of October 2022. In sum, Italy has fully implemented 18 recommendations, partially implemented another 7 and not implemented 23.
EPPO Bulgaria accuses former mayor and ex-governor in an investigation into possible fraud, involving the reconstruction of a fishing port
The four are accused of forging official documents and submitting false information, in order to illegally receive EU funds for a €3.4 million project, co-funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. At issue is a project to improve the infrastructure of an existing fishing port in the outskirts of Varna, submitted by the Municipality of Varna (the beneficiary). However, according to the investigation, such a port did not exist when the application for EU funding was submitted…
EPPO Romania indicts five individuals for misuse of funds from programmes for the inclusion of Roma communities, co-funded by the EU
The Municipality of Deda (the beneficiary of the funds) launched procurement procedures, under which three contracts were concluded. According to the investigation, the defendants colluded to present simulated bids, so that the contracts would be granted to a pre-selected company – thus misleading the mayor of Deda, who, acting without guilt, submitted the applications to the managing authority.
EPPO Croatia arrests four individuals on suspicion of abuse of office and subsidy fraud in case involving family farms
The first suspect was – at the time of alleged fraudulent acts – an employee of the Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development. He allegedly used the username and password of another employee of the Agency and, without legal basis, entered false data in the appropriate system. By doing so, he overstated the size of the family farms owned by himself and the three other suspects and thus presenting a larger agricultural area eligible for subsidies from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)…
GRECO urges Slovakia to make tangible progress to prevent corruption and strengthen integrity in Govt and police
This high-level visit followed the finding by GRECO in December 2023 that the Slovak Republic had not demonstrated sufficient progress in the implementation of the recommendations addressed to the country under its 5th Evaluation Round, triggering the application of GRECO’s non-compliance procedure…
GRECO evaluates anti-corruption progress in Ireland examining the effectiveness of measures aimed at preventing corruption among individuals holding top executive functions
Concludes that Ireland has satisfactorily implemented one of the eighteen recommendations set out in the evaluation report. Four recommendations have been partly implemented and thirteen have not been implemented.