Roe Foreign Official Gift Prohibition
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Roe_Foreign_Official_Gift_Prohibition
Properties
Instance of
ForeignOfficialCorruptPaymentProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ForeignOfficialCorruptPaymentProhibitionObligation
Case context
Roe's firm is negotiating a contract in a foreign country where a high-ranking government official has advised that personal gifts to contract-awarding officials are an established and legal local practice, and that failure to give gifts will result in loss of future work and poor cooperation.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Obligated party
Richard Roe, P.E.
Obligation statement
Roe is obligated to refrain from offering personal gifts to the foreign government officials who are authorized to award the engineering contract, regardless of the legality of such gifts under local law and regardless of the established local practice.
Temporal scope
Throughout the contract negotiation and performance period
Relationships
competesWith
Roe Cross-Cultural Diplomatic Sidestepping, Roe Host-Country Legal Permissibility Non-Excuse, Roe Off-Contract Implicit Gift Condition Non-Acquiescence, Roe Situational Ethics Non-Practice International
defeasibleUnder
Roe Firm Coercive Foreign Contract Conditioning, Roe Local Custom Legality Invoked as Ethics Justification
prevailsOver
Roe Host-Country Legal Permissibility Non-Excuse, Roe Situational Ethics Non-Practice International
derivedFromPrinciple
Corrupt Payment Prohibition Invoked Against Roe Gift-Giving
Source Evidence
Source text
Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country.
Text references
Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country.
TTL
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case167:Roe_Foreign_Official_Gift_Prohibition a proeth:ForeignOfficialCorruptPaymentProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Roe Foreign Official Gift Prohibition" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case167:Roe_Cross-Cultural_Diplomatic_Sidestepping,
case167:Roe_Host-Country_Legal_Permissibility_Non-Excuse,
case167:Roe_Off-Contract_Implicit_Gift_Condition_Non-Acquiescence,
case167:Roe_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_International ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case167:Roe_Firm_Coercive_Foreign_Contract_Conditioning,
case167:Roe_Local_Custom_Legality_Invoked_as_Ethics_Justification ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case167:Roe_Host-Country_Legal_Permissibility_Non-Excuse,
case167:Roe_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_International ;
proeth:casecontext "Roe's firm is negotiating a contract in a foreign country where a high-ranking government official has advised that personal gifts to contract-awarding officials are an established and legal local practice, and that failure to give gifts will result in loss of future work and poor cooperation." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case167:Corrupt_Payment_Prohibition_Invoked_Against_Roe_Gift-Giving ;
proeth:discoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Richard Roe, P.E." ;
proeth:obligationclass "Foreign Official Corrupt Payment Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Roe is obligated to refrain from offering personal gifts to the foreign government officials who are authorized to award the engineering contract, regardless of the legality of such gifts under local law and regardless of the established local practice." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the contract negotiation and performance period" ;
proeth:textreferences "Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.330815"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
167
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00
First case
167
Generated
2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00
Attributed to
Case 167 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T10:28:27.330815
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction