Foreign bribery by emerging export powers
disconcertingly high

Berlin / Brussels, 4 October 2006 --- Overseas bribery by companies from the world's export giants is still common, despite the existence of international anti-bribery laws criminalising this practice, according to the Transparency International 2006 Bribe Payers Index (BPI), the most comprehensive survey of its kind to date.

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