Description

Public procurement of goods and services creates valuable business opportunities but also exposure to bribery risks. Infrastructure and construction projects are particularly prone to corruption. This training programme covers how to recognise and investigate potential corruption schemes and fraud in public procurement and infrastructure projects.

Participants work in groups to investigate a simulated case of procurement corruption. The case focuses on a large road construction project. The Deputy Director of Procurement in the country’s Road Construction Agency receives bribes to steer the contracts to a favoured contractor. The bidding companies engage in collusive bidding to drive up contract prices.

Participants identify red flags for schemes like bid rigging, collusive bidding, fraud, bribes and kickbacks. They gather evidence to prove these and the commission of corruption and money laundering offences.

During lectures and group workshops, participants also examine actual cases to demonstrate how procurement tenders can be rigged, how bribes are generated, concealed and paid, and how these payments can be detected and proven.

Participants learn to:

• Understand and detect common types of corruption in contracting and procurement, including bribery, collusion, bid rigging, kickbacks and undisclosed financial interests in the award of contracts.
• Uncover evidence of corruption in such schemes.
• Identify the relevant criminal statutes and organise cases to ensure that each element of the crime is proven.

In their own words

“The training programme not only built knowledge among investigators but also made our investigation approach and report format more efficient. This has saved us a lot of time and resources.”

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