On 2 December 2019, as part of its on-going commitment to
strengthen Australia's foreign corporate bribery framework,
previously discussed in
December 2017 and April 2018, the Federal Government introduced
the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill
2019 (Cth) (the Bill). The Bill purports to
address challenges associated with detecting and addressing serious
corporate crime and is, with few exceptions, an identical
reincarnation of its 2017 equivalent (discussed here) which lapsed earlier this year
because of the Australian federal election.
The Bill contains three schedules which seek to enhance the
tools available to law enforcement and prosecutors to tackle
corporate crime by:
