In April 2022, in response to the Russian Federation’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, the OECD Council suspended the participation of the Russian Federation in the Working Group on Bribery except for monitoring pursuant to Article 12 of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.
Russia and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
As a Party to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, Russia’s implementation and enforcement of the Convention is subject to rigorous peer-review monitoring over successive phases, coordinated by the OECD Working Group on Bribery.
