FBI adds an anti-bribery squad focusing on South America
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to crack down on money laundering and bribes to overseas governments, the FBI is stepping up its efforts to root out foreign corruption with a new squad of agents based in Miami.The squad will focus its efforts not only on Miami but also in South America, a continent that has been home to some of the Justice Department’s most significant international corruption prosecutions of the last several years. When you’re looking at high-level government officials, there’s a lot of sensitivities.”The agents are working to ensure there’s “a place where business can compete fairly,” and in most cases other governments are glad to accept the FBI’s help in rooting out corruption, Backschies said.“You can’t just have one agent or two agents in a field office addressing it.
As said here by MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER