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What is the minimum number of employees required for a company to be subject to the AFA's initiative inspections?

100 employees

300 employees

500 employees

1,000 employees

What is the core mission of the Agence française anticorruption (AFA)?

Supervise banking operations to detect tax fraud

Help prevent and detect breaches of probity

Control imports and exports to prevent smuggling

Manage public contracts to avoid cost overruns

What are the three types of inspections carried out by the AFA?

Initiative inspections, execution inspections, follow-up inspections

Financial inspections, legal inspections, administrative inspections

Internal inspections, external inspections, random inspections

Preventive inspections, corrective inspections, punitive inspections

What are the possible sanctions that can be imposed by the AFA Sanctions Committee?

Compliance orders, fines up to 200,000 euros for natural persons, fines up to 1,000,000 euros for legal persons, publication of decisions

Imprisonment for executives, fines up to 500,000 euros for legal persons, suspension of activities

Asset confiscation, ban from practising for executives, fines up to 500,000 euros for natural persons

Administrative closure of companies, fines up to 50,000 euros for natural persons, publication of decisions

The AFA recommendations have direct binding force according to the Sanctions Committee decision of 4 July 2019.

True

False

Obstruction of AFA investigations is punishable by a fine of 30,000 euros.

True

False

Current director of the AFA

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Categorize items by dragging them to the appropriate zones

Items to categorize:

Active corruption

Influence peddling

Extortion by public officials

Illegal taking of interests

Misappropriation of public funds

Favouritism

Categories:

Corruption-related offences

Offences related to public fund management