And so better to work with the grain of Somali culture rather than through distrusted foreign intermediaries.
Corrupt payments are often made by foreign intermediaries acting on behalf of the company, many of whom have no ties to the United States.
Specifically, it examines the effect of design characteristics of exporters' control systems, as a main source of information, on the quality of their relationships with their foreign intermediaries.
For a country understandably frustrated by the one-dimensional view of it held by the rest of the world, the easiest target for this frustration is the foreign reporter, that intermediary between Us and Them.
Gaitame.com, the top foreign-currency retail intermediary, says that on some days its retail business beats its parent broker's wholesale transactions.
According to the court documents, the Jersey City men -- Mr. Mohsen and Mohammed Rajaa Malik, also known as Mike Malik -- said they were acting as intermediaries for foreign buyers.
On Tanna island, where many buildings were flattened and there were seven reported deaths, Tom and Margaret Richards, Australian Presbyterian missionaries, contacted the Australian foreign affairs department through intermediaries to advise that they were safe, a relative said.
Energy policies did not serve the Ukrainian economy but fuelled the country's dependency on corrupt national and foreign energy suppliers and intermediaries.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), now before America's Congress, is the latest of many recent attempts to defend property rights on the internet.The bill aims to cut off Americans' access to foreign pirate websites by squeezing intermediaries.
In order to ensure that companies don't simply consider fines for FCPA violations as part of the "cost of doing business," there's a deliberate emphasis on charging individuals — including chief executives, chief financial officers, corporate sales, marketing and finance executives, intermediaries and even foreign officials.
