Solicitation
Definition The act of a person asking, ordering or enticing someone else to commit bribery or another crime.69
Example in practice A 2005 survey of 701 companies in the Philippines asked managers if they had solicited a bribe in the past year. Responses showed that more than one-fifth of the respondents had reportedly done so when dealing with government agencies, either to request a local government permit or license (36 percent), pay income taxes (30 percent), petition for a national government permit or license (28 percent), or import goods (21 percent).70
Relevant links —— BIAC Program for Combating the Solicitation of Bribes. www.10iacc.org/download/workshops/cs18f.pdf
—— OECD Guidelines for Multinational Companies. www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/36/1922428.pdf
—— Transparency International: Business Principles for Countering Bribery. www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles
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