But lawyers say the SFO may find it hard to get a conviction on accusations of bribery before that date.

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In addition to the Century Bank scandal, police charged anti-graft officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission with bribery and blackmail.

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Certainly the international regulatory environment is changing more governments now are cracking down much harder on foreign bribery,".

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And the lack of any good governance oversight has meant that inevitably some of the money has gone to bribery, kickbacks and corruption.

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The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 extended British corruption law to cover bribery of overseas officials.

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"Even petty bribery,small bribery, is not a long-term sustainable approach to kind of grease the wheels,"

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Chandrashekhar Krishnan, executive director of Britain's anti-corruption agency Transparency International, says in the past Britain has been slow to bring legal action in bribery cases.

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Krishnan says bribery by western companies can be disastrous to developing countries.

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One of Nigeria's leading opposition parties, the Action Congress, says the establishment of a panel of top security officials to probe the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal was an attempt to undermine the investigations.

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