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bribery

02 Aug 2018

How businesses can spot the set of conditions that enable fraud to occur 

By Janice Roberts

Economic crime is harming businesses at a staggering rate throughout the world. Digital innovation and technology has also given rise to new attack surfaces for economic criminals and fraudsters, with the rate of instances growing at exponential levels.
29 Nov 2017

Malema is leader most committed to combating corruption: Survey

By Janice Roberts

Key findings of the 2017 South African Citizens’ Bribery Survey include: 37% of respondents know someone who was has been asked for a bribe in the past year (up 4% from 2016); The largest proportion of bribes (57%) are traffic related (up 6% from 2016); 14% of bribes are for jobs (down 4% from 2016);...
29 Nov 2016

Corruption and bribery, a company’s biggest risk

By Janice Roberts

Recently published research from the Henley Business School has found that around 85 percent of international businesses resort to bribery when operating in developing economies. The study interviewed over 900 business executives during a period of 12 years, and indicated that companies from many developed countries are notoriously malleable in their attitudes towards paying bribes...
02 Mar 2016

Being first isn’t always best

By Janice Roberts

South African organisations reported a considerably higher frequency in the incidence of economic crime in comparison to their African and global peers, with more than two in three organisations (69%) indicating that they had been victim to economic crime in the last 24 months, according to PwC’s biennial Global Economic Crime Survey issued this week. Louis...