Roe Firm Foreign Official Corrupt Payment Prohibition Violation

@prefix case167: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case167:Roe_Firm_Foreign_Official_Corrupt_Payment_Prohibition_Violation a proeth:ForeignOfficialCorruptPaymentProhibitionObligation, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Roe Firm Foreign Official Corrupt Payment Prohibition Violation" ; proeth-core:competesWith case167:Roe_Firm_Competitor_Gift-Practice_Non-Justification_Compliance, case167:Roe_Firm_No-Choice_Defense_Rejection_Domestic_Analogy, case167:Roe_Firm_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_Foreign_Context ; proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case167:Roe_Firm_Coercive_Foreign_Contract_Conditioning, case167:Roe_Firm_Foreign_Contract_Negotiation_-_International_Ethics_Applicability, case167:Roe_Local_Custom_Legality_Invoked_as_Ethics_Justification ; proeth-core:prevailsOver case167:Roe_Firm_Competitor_Gift-Practice_Non-Justification_Compliance, case167:Roe_Firm_No-Choice_Defense_Rejection_Domestic_Analogy, case167:Roe_Firm_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_Foreign_Context ; proeth:casecontext "Core holding of the NSPE BER opinion: Section 11b prohibits offering gifts to secure work, and this prohibition applies to foreign government officials in foreign countries regardless of local law or custom." ; proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ; proeth:confidence "0.97" ; proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case167:Gift-Giving_to_Secure_Foreign_Contract_as_Corrupt_Payment_Prohibition_Violation ; proeth:discoveredincase "167" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:obligatedparty "Richard Roe / US Engineering Firm Seeking Foreign Government Contract" ; proeth:obligationclass "Foreign Official Corrupt Payment Prohibition Obligation" ; proeth:obligationstatement "Roe's firm was obligated to refrain from offering personal gifts to foreign government officials as a condition of obtaining the engineering contract, regardless of the legality of such gifts under foreign law and regardless of their status as established local practice." ; proeth:sourcetext "There is no question under the factual situation that the gifts are a direct consideration for securing the work, and there is here no pretense about the intention of the foreign government officials." ; proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the contract negotiation and procurement process in the foreign country" ; proeth:textreferences "Note: The following Code sections no longer exists: Code of Ethics --Section 11b--'He will not pay, or offer to pay, either directly or indirectly, and commission, political contribution, or a gift, or other consideration in order to secure work'", "There is no question under the factual situation that the gifts are a direct consideration for securing the work, and there is here no pretense about the intention of the foreign government officials.", "they would clearly be a violation of the code if offered in the United State." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.338080"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .