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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825409703321

Titolo

Bribery and corruption casebook : the view from under the table / / edited by Joseph T. Wells, Laura Hymes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2012

ISBN

1-118-28263-9

1-119-20471-2

1-280-59081-5

9786613620644

1-118-28710-X

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WellsJoseph T

HymesLaura

Disciplina

363.25/9323

Soggetti

Fraud investigation

Bribery

Corruption

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Bribery andCorruption Casebook; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 The Hot-Tub Highwaymen; Chapter 2 Trouble Brewing; Chapter 3 In the State's Interest; Chapter 4 Odd Bedfellows; Chapter 5 When Bribery Becomes a Way of Doing Business; Chapter 6 Kickbacks for Comic Books; Chapter 7 Interrupted Production; Chapter 8 High-Plains Grifter; Chapter 9 Getting a Free Ride; Chapter 10 Conflicting Interests, Conflicting Cultures; Chapter 11 But We Thought He Was SavingUs Millions; Chapter 12 The Construction of a Fraud; Chapter 13 The Summer Bribe; Chapter 14 Brazen Bank Manager

Chapter 15 In Bed with the Tax ManChapter 16 High-Rise Rollers; Chapter 17 Decorum Across the International Date Line; Chapter 18 The Kickback Mine; Chapter 19 A Sweet Deal; Chapter 20 Da' Money; Chapter 21 The Seemingly Upstanding Citizen; Chapter 22 Big Dangers from a Small Vendor; Chapter 23 A Drop in the Ocean; Chapter 24 The Professor and the Deputy; Chapter 25 Calling for Kickbacks; Chapter 26 Going Green in Mexico; Chapter 27 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing; Chapter



28 Dances with Fraud; Chapter 29 The Corrupt Public Servant; Chapter 30 Romance, Jewels and Kickbacks: All in a Day's Work

Chapter 31 Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts AbsolutelyChapter 32 For Love or Money?; Chapter 33 Ethical Governance: A Mandate for Outsourcing; Chapter 34 Friends and Lovers in High Places; Chapter 35 Kickbacks on Demand; Chapter 36 High-Flying Ambition; Chapter 37 The Cleaner Who Swept His Way to the Top; Chapter 38 Sorry, This Fraud Has Been Disconnected; Chapter 39 Bid Rigging and Kickbacks under the Bridge; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Real case studies on bribery and corruption written by expert fraud examiners Bribery and Corruption Casebook: The View from Under the Table is a one-of-a-kind collection of actual cases written by the fraud examiners who investigated them. These stories were hand-selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining picture of the many types of bribery and corruption cases in varied industries throughout the world.Each case outlines how the bribe or corruption was engineered, how it was investigated, and how perpetrators