Republic of Korea foreign bribery / New KickBack podcast / Thailand censure debate

Samsung Heavy Industries to pay $75M in foreign bribery case.  “Samsung Heavy Industries, a South Korea-based engineering company, will pay total criminal penalties of $75.5 million to enforcement authorities in the United States and Brazil to resolve violations arising out of a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.

Jaclyn Jaeger/Compliance Week: https://www.complianceweek.com/anti-bribery/samsung-heavy-industries-to-pay-75m-in-foreign-bribery-case/28096.article

 

New Podcast, Featuring Monika Bauhr (Blog/Podcast).  Professor Bauhr discusses her research work in three key areas: (1) the impact of pro-transparency reforms (particularly the adoption of freedom of information laws) on corruption; (2) the disaggregation of the broad category “corruption” into different types of corruption (such as “need” corruption versus “greed” corruption); and (3) the relationship between gender and corruption, in particular what factors might account for the apparent correlation between greater representation of women in elected office (or the business or political elite more generally) and lower (perceived) corruption levels.

Matthew Stephenson and Monika Bauhr/KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2019/11/26/new-podcast-featuring-monika-bauhr/

 

Opposition to target economy, corruption in censure debate.  “The opposition [in Thailand] is ready to censure the government for its mishandling of the economy, policies it says benefit big businesses and alleged corruption in government agencies, according to Pheu Thai Party chief strategist Sudarat Keyuraphan.”

Bangkok Posthttps://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/1800054/opposition-to-target-economy-corruption-in-censure-debate

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