Tougher bribery laws will now cover offences abroad
BRIBING foreign public officials would become an offence under anti-corruption proposals published by the Scottish Government.
There would also be a new corporate offence of negligently failing to prevent bribery.
The proposals were put forward yesterday by justice secretary Kenny MacAskill, who said the law needed to be clearer.
Proposals for modernising the law in England and Wales were published in March and the Holyrood proposals are modelled on these.
The changes in England and Wales increase the maximum penalty for bribery from seven to ten years' imprisonment and an unlimited fine, and will remove parliamentary privilege from MPs or peers being prosecuted.
Mr MacAskill said the new legislation would create two general offences – one dealing with bribing another person, and the other dealing with being bribed.
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