The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into charges that some of the largest multinational OEMs of medical imaging equipment allegedly paid bribes to government officials in China to secure equipment sales, according to an article published June 4 in Reuters. The SEC investigation includes GE, Siemens, and Philips, and is part of a broader…
Over the last eight years, China has cracked down on bribery and corruption, particularly in its investigations and prosecutions of public officials, but what about corporate enforcement? Corruption, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, remains the greatest threat to the Communist Party’s survival, and according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, which was published in January…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News As we walked off the aeroplane in Hong Kong in November last year, on the eve of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, we had no idea that we were stepping into the epicentre of an unfolding human drama. Just…
