An anti-corruption demonstration in Paris, in 2017. -

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Over the past five years, 22% of French companies have been confronted with cases of corruption, according to a survey published on Monday by the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA).

Half of them initiated proceedings "which all resulted in a disciplinary sanction," according to responses given from February to August to the agency attached to the government by nearly 2,000 directors general or ethics specialists working in businesses of all sizes.

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: 3 years after the Sapin II law, where are the companies?


AFA publishes a national diagnostic on #prevention of #corruption in the private sector.


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Progress since the Sapin law of 2016

"On the other hand, only 20% of them accompanied the disciplinary sanction of a criminal complaint", continues the AFA.

“Companies have the feeling that they are familiar with corruption offenses” and “70% of them have implemented a prevention system”, whether or not they are subject to such an obligation, in force since the Sapin law 2 for companies with more than 500 employees.

This law passed at the end of 2016 has doubled in three years the number of companies with such a device, according to the results of the survey.

Officials questioned estimate that 46% today “the risk of corruption is fully taken into account”, 38% that it is “in part” and 16% that it is not. all.

A three-year plan to fight corruption

Most respondents say they are familiar with most breaches of probity, including 87% of the difference between active and passive corruption, embezzlement of public funds (85%), favoritism (84%), influence peddling (79%) or even the illegal taking of interests (78%), but the concussion (collection of an undue sum by a representative of the public authority) is only known to a minority (43%).

Criticized at European level for failures in its anti-corruption fight, France announced in January 2020 a three-year fight plan aimed at strengthening preventive measures within its administration.

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