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It is a crime for companies from all the major trading countries to pay bribes overseas to foreign public officials.

Corner House, the UK-based human rights and anti-corruption NGO has developed a web site for reporting international or foreign bribery. It provides the relevant reporting points for 37 countries that have signed the OECD Anti-bribery Convention: www.reportbribery.org

Reporting the crime to national enforcement authorities involves the following steps:

1. deciding where to report the offence: host or home country;
2. (if home) identifying the home country of the company or individual involved;
3. identifying the relevant authority to which to report the offence in the home country.

If you don't know the home country of the company or the individual involved you could report the offence to the OECD Anti-corruption Division: anti-corruption.contact@oecd.org

In addition to reporting the bribe-payer, it is also possible to report the solicitation to BribeLine (https://www.bribeline.org), a reporting system established and managed by TRACE, which is a non-profit membership association of commercial intermediaries and multinational companies. The aim of BribeLine is to compile information on incidents of solicitation and to use the aggregate information to gain a better picture of solicitation around the world.