Greece should do more to combat bribery of foreign officials, OECD says
Greece needs to give priority to fighting bribery of foreign officials after having made great strides in combating graft at home, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In a report published on Friday, the think-tank said Greece's anti-corruption action plan and other policy measures only associate "corruption" with domestic graft, when the country's companies are at "substantial risk" of committing foreign bribery.
Despite the adoption of a national anti-corruption policy and creating new institutions to tackle the problem, Greece "has given fighting foreign bribery much less attention", the OECD report added.
Since its last anti-corruption report on the country in 2012, OECD noted that Greece had significantly enhanced some aspects of its program but "there remains ample room for improvement" in many areas.
This, opined the OECD, sends an "unfortunate message" that fighting domestic corruption is a priority, but foreign bribery is "an acceptable means to win overseas business and improve the Greek economy".