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| Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 08:17 AM EDT |
| And it doesn't matter what country or state it is. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 09:15 AM EDT |
The corrupt foreign practices law which dictates how US companies are to behave
in other countries, allows for customs that require what we would consider
bribes. Like pretty much everything else, all you have to do is document it to
death and explain who, what, why, when, and how much.
There are limits on what you can pay bribes for. I don't recall the specifics,
but I don't think you can bribe someone to use your product rather than a
competitors. Or at least, I don't think you can bribe them any more than you
have reason to believe your competitors are paying.
Most US companies that do business in foreign countries have compliance officers
who are responsible for approving the bribes and maintaining the paperwork.
If MS is getting in trouble, either they did something really egregious, or
they've angered someone in the US government. Perhaps someone important bought
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| Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 01:35 PM EDT |
Virtually every nation has signed up to banning "red envelopes" there
is even a <a
href="http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/signatories.html">
UN treaty </a>.
The compliance course run at my employer makes it clear that it is illegal to
offer any inducement, it is also illegal to deal with any company that offers
such inducements. Thus if M$ don't cooperate fully and show that it wasn't
corporate policy they could be in very serious commercial difficulties.
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