e first time, the Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) condemned a compliance officer to pay a fine for failure to prevent an infringement made by employees. This decision should put more pressure on these managers, whose number has slightly increased in Germany for the past few years after a series of bribery scandals and internal abuses of power in the largest businesses of the country. (Ref. 090832)
Increased number of compliance officers. Compliance and ethics officers are notably in cha
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