Individuals as Whistleblowers
Cartels are by their nature hard to uncover and regulators rely – to a large part – on appealing to companies’ wallets. Immunity and leniency policies, by which regulators offer to whistleblowing companies full immunity or discounts from fines, have been around for a long time. An increasing number of regulators have now added another instrument to their cartel enforcement toolkit: the offering of financial incentives to lure individual employees to come forward and whistleblow…
