OECD to Mexico: Increase foreign bribery enforcement
Mexico needs to give more priority to foreign bribery enforcement, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in its Phase 4 evaluation of Mexico’s implementation of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments.
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