About the OECD Foreign Bribery Report 7

Key Findings 8

Analysis of Concluded Foreign Bribery Cases 11

-Methodology 11

-Enforcement of the foreign bribery offence 13

-How is foreign bribery detected? 15

-How is foreign bribery punished? 18

-Foreign bribery: the who, what, where, why and how 21

-Who is bribing? 21

-Who is receiving the bribe? 22

-What is the cost of a bribe? 25

-How are bribes being paid? 28

-Where are bribes being paid? 29

-Where are the bribers being punished? 31

-Why are bribes being paid? 32

Conclusions and Next Steps 33

-Preliminary conclusions 33

-Availability of information on foreign bribery cases 33

-Detection and reporting 33

-Timeframes 34

-Sanctions 34

-Settlements 34

-Compliance programmes 34

-Public procurement 35

-Next steps 36

Notes 37

Glossary of Terms 41

Bibliography 44