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The new UK Bribery Act 2010 not only introduces tough new anti-bribery laws, but creates a new corporate offence of "failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery" - meaning that a company carrying on business in the UK could be prosecuted for acts done by foreign employees, agents or subsidiaries in other countries, and without their permission
