International anti-corruption officials are pressuring Japan and Spain to step up their investigations and prosecutions of companies using bribery to conduct foreign business. The Working Group on Bribery, which implements the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s anti-bribery convention, issued a warning that Japan’s new action plan, which for the first time gives specialized investigation resources to police and prosecutors’ offices, still lacks important details.
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