This presentation by Leah Ambler outlines some of the highlights from the OECD Foreign Bribery Report released in Paris on 2 December 2014. Download the report at http://bit.ly/1rNWj1G Find the webcast and launch event at http://oe.cd/LS

2. Context + Methodology
 Goal to illustrate the crime of foreign bribery based on the
facts.
 Analysis of concluded foreign bribery enforcement actions
between entry into force of Convention and 1 June 2014.
 Analysis limited to sanctions for foreign bribery and related
preparatory or participatory offences against 427 individual
and corporate defendants.
 Original judgments/settlements available in 58% of cases;
WGB evaluations a source of information in 40% of cases;
media or third party reporting relied upon for 2% of cases.
 Data equally useful to governments and business.

3. How are cases detected?

4. Who pays the bribes?
Only 4% of sanctioned companies
were SMEs. In 60% of cases, the
company associated with the
corrupt transaction had more than
250 employees.

5. Which sectors are most at risk?
Two-thirds of the foreign bribery
cases occurred in four sectors:
 Extractive
 Construction
 Transportation and storage
 Information and communication

6. Which sectors are most at risk?
Bribes as a percentage of the transaction value per sector

7. Who is on the receiving end?
SOE officials were bribed in 27% of cases but received 80.11% of
total bribes. Heads of state and ministers were bribed in a total of
5% of cases but received 11% of total bribes.

8. Where were the bribes paid?
Two-thirds of bribes
were paid to officials in
countries higher on the
UN Human Development
Index
This map shows the countries whose
public officials received bribes

9. How and why are bribes paid?

10. What is the cost of foreign bribery?
On average, bribes equaled
10.9% of the transaction value
and 34.5% of the profits.
In 41% of cases, sanctions
ranged from 100-200% of the
proceeds of the corrupt
transaction.
“Every dollar spent on a bribe is a dollar not spent on
innovation” Brackett Denniston, GE (Launch of OECD
Foreign Bribery Report, 2 December 2014)

11. How are cases sanctioned?

12. Enforcement of foreign bribery laws
80 individuals were imprisoned after a foreign bribery conviction

13. Enforcement of foreign bribery laws
390 investigations are underway in 24 of the 41
parties to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

14. Conclusions + Next Steps
 Proposals for both governments and business to enhance
the fight against foreign bribery, building on findings of the
report.
 Scope for further, in-depth analysis and additional horizontal
studies to build on this first attempt to measure foreign
bribery.
 Potential for using this model to analyse other forms of
corporate crime.

15. Thank you
Find out more about the work of the
OECD to combat foreign bribery
www.oecd.org/corruption