Bribery
BRIBERY
A printing company got suspicious when their employee in charge of orders kept disappearing over lunch hours after receiving a casual telephone call from a fired director. She began dressing extravagantly, suggesting an increase in disposable income. OF&A decided to keep her under surveillance during her lunch breaks and she led them to a man in a car parked behind a nearby shopping center. A background investigation and photographs taken of the man she was meeting identified him as the previous director.
OF&A confronted the woman on her return with the evidence and she made a full confession that the director had approached and coerced her into feeding confidential information about new orders and pricing enabling him to approach the customers and take business away from OF&A's client. In this case a search warrant was obtained to search the man's house and he was found in possession of some of the confidential material the woman had stolen from her employer's premises, making him an accessory to theft and bribery. He was duly arrested and eventually convicted.