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“We are facing a Wild West situation,” said Mark Pieth, a criminal law professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland and anti-bribery law expert. “It will be everyone against everyone.”
Trump's halt of US law banning business bribes abroad raises specter of a 'Wild West' of dealmaking
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