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The Bribery act came into force today (01/07/2011).

Here's a link to the government guidance on it :

http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/bribery-act-2010-guidance.pdf

It's now our responsibility to have anti corruption policies in place for our businesses but unlike MLR at least there doesn't seem to be an associated registration process that needs to be followed. (someone will now tell me that there is).

Check out the link. Hope that it helps.

Kind regards,

Shaun.



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Cheers Shaun

You just knew I wouldn't be able to resist reading it didn't you?

Bill



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My only purpose here is just to keep you in reading material Bill. wink

Anyway, I still owed you one for posting the link to the full edition of the budget report before I'd dug it out.



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I attended a ML seminar with the IAB in November 2010, and this Act was also covered. The speaker did point out that this was not a particulary well thought out bill and parts of it completely unrealistic, but if if our ML proceduces were robust enough, we as "accountancy service providers" would fulfill our oblligations under this Act!

What I found interesting from the ML part of the seminar was that in 2009 the total figure recovered from cash seizures, confiscations and other asset recovery methods was just £154m - (esitmated 3.54% of the estimated cost to the economy) - which is not a lot when you consider the 2009 budget for policing in England & Wales was 18.5Billion. (Source: Sir John Sephens, July 2010)...



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