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What Can India Learn from the U.S. Battle on Bribery?
Josh Goodman, an attorney in Washington, D.C. and a former editor of the Harvard International Law Journal, feels that as India fights it out to bring in a legislative bill to stop corruption in the country, there are many lessons that could be learned from the American fight against international corporate bribery in recent years. U.S. had passed laws banning businesses from bribing foreign government officials known as ‘the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.’
The first lesson would be the fact that laws on the books matter little if it’s not backed by a strong political will and adequate resources to support enforcement. He gives the example of enactment of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the Watergate scandal involving U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1977. However, the law remained quite inactive for many years until the federal prosecutors began investigating such cases in the early 2000s. The ongoing debate over the proposed provisions of the Lokpal bill in India should be directed in the right direction considering these facts. The anticorruption ombudsman will be a futile one if it lacks the backing of the will and resources to investigate and charge violations.
