Originally Posted by ZFT
Today the rules are very clearly defined and every company ensures all staff are fully conversant with the various laws and company ethics pertaining to this so there is really no excuse any more for running foul of either the FCPA or the UK equivalent.
The thing is no matter how clear the rule is or how many training videos are viewed, in practice black and white rules become gray and clear becomes muddy. In china, you can't get so much as an elevator inspection without help from a local "agent." ...and as excuses go... there are worse ones than everybody else is doing it. While that doesn't make it right, it does make it reality.
...and the irony of laws such as FCPA, that are enforced quite selectively and unevenly, is that they often encourage to corrupt behavior by enforcers of said Act.