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Italy’s foreign-bribery acquittals show need for judicial and legislative change, OECD expert group warns

By Phoebe Seers ( October 18, 2022, 13:50 GMT | Insight) -- Italy’s commitment to prosecuting foreign bribery has been challenged in the country’s latest evaluation by the OECD's Working Group on Bribery, with the examiners expressing concern that judges' rationale for acquitting companies of foreign bribery — most notably oil majors Shell and Eni — was at odds with the global anti-bribery convention to which Italy is a signatory.Italy’s commitment to prosecuting foreign bribery has been challenged by an international expert group over concerns that judges' rationale for acquitting companies of foreign bribery — most notably oil majors Shell and Eni — was at odds with the global anti-bribery convention to which Italy is a signatory....

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