{"id":11390,"date":"2012-06-12T23:09:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-2-wal-mart-bribery-review-includes-brazil-china\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:44","slug":"update-2-wal-mart-bribery-review-includes-brazil-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-wal-mart-bribery-review-includes-brazil-china\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Wal-Mart bribery review includes Brazil, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Initial review focused on Brazil, China, Mexico<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lawyers also flagged India, South Africa as high risk<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lawmakers investigating bribery allegations<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Aruna Viswanatha<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores<br \/>\nInc have flagged Brazil, China, India and South Africa<br \/>\nin addition to Mexico, as countries that represent the highest<br \/>\ncorruption risk in a global review, according to a letter from<br \/>\nlawmakers investigating the company.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lawyers said they first reviewed Wal-Mart policies in<br \/>\nMexico, Brazil and China, and later recommended the company also<br \/>\nevaluate its operations in India and South Africa. The lawyers<br \/>\nreferred to those five countries as regions where the risk was<br \/>\nthe greatest, according to the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company has acknowledged it is investigating bribery<br \/>\nallegations involving its Mexican operations, and that it<br \/>\ninitiated a world-wide review of its anti-corruption compliance<br \/>\nprogram in March 2011, but has not provided details about the<br \/>\nreview.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the letter, from Representatives Elijah<br \/>\nCummings and Henry Waxman, both Democrats, Wal-Mart continued to<br \/>\nreview its anti-corruption policies in other countries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The review led Wal-Mart to revise its program to include a<br \/>\nnew procedure for escalating corruption complaints to senior<br \/>\nmanagement and the board&#8217;s audit committee, the letter said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Initial review focused on Brazil, China, Mexico * Lawyers also flagged India, South Africa as high risk * Lawmakers investigating bribery allegations By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc have flagged Brazil, China, India and South Africa in addition to Mexico, as countries that represent the highest corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}