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With FCPA paused, U.S. prosecutors skip OECD anti-bribery meetings

The U.S. absence raises questions about the Trump administration's commitment to enforcing anti-bribery laws.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Paris headquarters.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's headquarters in Paris. The OECD, which has 38 member nations in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region, says its members and key partners represent 80% of world trade and investment. (AN/mySociety)

PARIS (AN) — For the first time since its founding three decades ago, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery working group met without representatives from U.S. law enforcement.

The OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, which was founded in 1994, has been holding a plenary session at OECD headquarters that runs through Friday. The international organization monitors 46 nations' compliance with the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the first legally binding treaty against bribing foreign government officials in international business transactions.

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