When can advertising violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Perhaps that is not a question often on the minds of compliance officers. The ongoing FIFA corruption scandal, however, demonstrates that any expenditure going out of a corporation may well need to be considered from an anti-bribery angle. This would also include any company that paid out monies to become the product sponsor of any national soccer federation.
Yet what about companies that may have purchased the right to become sponsors of FIFA itself?
