Spotting fraud, simony and nepotism...
Jun. 21st, 2013 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDespite myself, I found today's training course on the Bribery Act 2010 more interesting than expected.
Obviously written in response to the worst excesses of the arms industry, it casts its definitions of bribery and corruption impressively wide: not only is an offence to accept a bribe, but it is an offence to agree to accept a bribe; and, because the act deals in intentions rather than outcomes, it is an offence to attempt to obtain an advantage even if the expected advantage doesn't actually materialise.
Obviously written in response to the worst excesses of the arms industry, it casts its definitions of bribery and corruption impressively wide: not only is an offence to accept a bribe, but it is an offence to agree to accept a bribe; and, because the act deals in intentions rather than outcomes, it is an offence to attempt to obtain an advantage even if the expected advantage doesn't actually materialise.
