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The IMB aware of the escalating level of this criminal activity, wanted to provide a free service to the seafarer and established the 24 hour IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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CCS offers a flexible membership arrangement based on the selection of predetermined membership packages. A prospective member can elect to join one or more Bureaux according to their requirements.
Losses due to official misconduct account for a great many maritime trade incidents. Each incident can be complex and wide-ranging in nature. It is therefore unlikely that any one company will have the knowledge and resources to be able to investigate it thoroughly.
Counterfeiting and piracy are a drain on our businesses and on the global economy. It has resulted in the widespread loss of lawful employment and a massive reduction of tax revenues.
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According to Transparency International (TI), ||Brazil|| is considered to be one of the countries that had the worst performance in regard of the ones that signed the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Just last year, ||Brazil|| had four surveys on this matter. Click here for the article (in Portuguese) and here for TI’s page on its Progress Report on the Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (click the link to download TI’s 2011 report). Visit our Resources and Publications pages for material on the same topics: ||Brazil||, Corruption (from FraudNet member for ||Brazil|| ||Antenor Madruga||, of ||Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao Advogados||).
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The Bribery Act 2010 is due to come into force throughout the ||United Kingdom|| on 1 July 2011. It consolidates the existing law and creates new offences. In particular, it is now an offence for a commercial organisation to fail to prevent bribery. Organisations which carry on business in the UK must ensure that they have adequate procedures in place. These procedures should be designed to prevent any associated person from undertaking conduct illegal under the Act and should be proportionate to the risks faced by the organisation in question. The Ministry of Justice has published updated guidance to assist commercial organisations: click here to view the guidance. Visit our Resources and Publications pages for material on the same topics: ||United Kingdom||, Corruption. (from FraudNet member for ||Scotland|| ||Douglas Milne||, of ||Morton Fraser, Edinburgh||)
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New version of the Law “On Enforcement Proceeding” aimed to improve the entire process of enforcement was adopted by Parliament on November 4, 2010 and entered into force on March 9, 2011. The changes introduced relate, inter alia, to authority of the enforcement officers, opening of the enforcement proceeding, lodging a complaint against actions or failures to act of enforcement officers and increase of the enforcement fee.
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The Federal Council has asked the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) to initiate proceedings for the forfeiture of the Duvalier funds frozen in Switzerland, based on the Federal Act on the Restitution of Assets of Politically Exposed Persons obtained by Unlawful Means (RIAA), which entered into force on 1 February 2011. The Federal Administrative Court (FAC) will be in charge of these proceedings. Visit our Resources and Publications pages for material on the same topics: ||Switzerland||, Corruption, Forfeiture, Duvalier Case. Click here for the press release (from FraudNet member for ||Switzerland|| ||Yves Klein||, of ||Monfrini Crettol & Associes, Geneva||).
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