UK courts rule on secret commissions and recovering profits

Recovering profits from accessories of bribe beneficiaries and secret commissions were respectively considered in two recent UK appellate decisions, one released earlier this month and another on Wednesday.

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The first case, which came before the Court of Appeal, opens with a somewhat bemusing reference to the first instance of bribery in classical times:

When Odysseus penetrated the underworld, he encountered, among many other ghosts, that of Eriphyle whom Homer (Od.