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Howard was a newly joined senior internal audit manager of a publicly listed company.  On presenting to the Managing Director about his evidence of wrongdoings by the Purchasing Director, he was asked to stay away from the case.  

Dr M, the Chief of Service of the Paediatric Department of a public hospital, has the approving authority for purchases not exceeding $100,000. His girlfriend Phoebe is a sales manager of a large medical equipment company.

Recently, David, the Department Operations Manager, recommended a replacement of a medical equipment and the sourcing was in progress. As Dr M knew that Phoebe was being pressured by her boss to secure more business for the company, he offered to help her.  After going through the quotations obtained by David, Dr M found that the price quoted by Phoebe was not the lowest.  He thus asked David to mark up the quotations of other companies so that he could secure the contract of the medical equipment to Phoebe’s company.   In order to please Dr M, David agreed to the proposal.

Jonathan was a computer programmer in Galaxy Electronics. The job assigned to Jonathan was contracted out to an outside software house whose proprietor was his friend. His friend asked Jonathan to take up the job in his own spare time…

A general manager of a restaurant invited his subordinate to join a bribery scam by awarding the project to a contractor who agreed to inflate the quotation price.

Two young engineers opened a start-up with their friends but now wanted to leave. For the start-up to survive, the engineers were asked by the friends to add the start-up into their company’s contractor list…