Wendy Wysong of Steptoe & Johnson, TRACE&rsquos Partner Law Firm in Hong Kong, joins the podcast to discuss recent new guidance from China&rsquos Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). Applying only to bribes paid within China&rsquos borders, the guidance highlights some challenges for companies operating in China, particularly with respect to multi-country settlements.

This week on Bribe, Swindle or Steal, Yana Gorokhovskaia of Freedom House joins the podcast to talk about transnational repression, the increasingly common abuse and intimidation by states of their citizens living abroad. Yana discusses Jamal Khashoggi, murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Roman Protasevich, whose plane was forced to land in Belarus where he is still being held, but also refers to the hundreds of other cases that don&rsquot make the news. Freedom House has released an excellent report on this problem: Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach.

As is holiday tradition, we're revisiting our podcast with Peter Hellman, who describes Rudy Kurniawan&rsquos audacious scheme to defraud wine collectors in his excellent book, In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire. (This episode was originally published in 2019.)

Penelope Kyritsis, Assistant Director of Research at the Worker Rights Consortium, discusses the detention of China&rsquos Uyghur Moslem minority in internment camps. Uyghurs have been compelled to work in these camps, primarily in Xinjiang. But they are now also separated from their families and relocated to factories across China, making it difficult for companies to undertake meaningful due diligence on forced labor in their Chinese supply chains. (This episode was originally published in September 2020.)

Nicola Bonucci, former Legal Director at the OECD and now a partner at Paul Hastings in Paris, joins the podcast to discuss the 2021 OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendation announced in November. We also chat about the challenge of advancing an international consensus on anti-corruption enforcement amongst Working Group on Bribery members hailing from different legal systems.