ABSTRACT

There are many ways and places in which a company can suffer from unfair or illegal behaviour by its competitors (which includes companies in the same line of business, its own employees with conflicting business interests, information brokers, organised crime, and opportunists) but the main risks of bribery1 include:

• Shared customers, suppliers, intermediaries, politicians, research or licencing bodies and FPOs;

• Of contractors or sub-contactors; • Of other competitive firms to bid high,2 low or to refuse to compete; • Cartels.