Seminar: How good people are corrupted
Join us for this eye-opening seminar on 17 March by a former AFP officer on how groups identify, target and soften public officials up to act corruptly.
Sean Johnson24 February 2025
Monday, 17 March 2025 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Reserve your spot today - Only $25 (50% off)
Ever wondered how seemingly good people get involved in corrupt practices? Open Politics is hosting an online seminar presented by former Australian Federal Police Officer Chris Douglas on how a person can be corrupted.
Known as the corruption process, Chris's presentation will cover how groups identify vulnerable public officials and private employees, target them, and then soften them up for corruption.
Seminar content1. Common elements in the corruption process
- Target identification
- Softening up process, including grooming
- Soliciting or offering a bribe
- Source and payment of a bribe
- Abuse of power
- Disposal of a bribe
- Commonwealth, state and local government officials
- Public and private sector procurement staff
- Parliamentarians
- Ministerial staff and electorate officers
- Employees of private sector firms and non-profit organisations that operate in high-risk jurisdictions
- Anyone else with an interest in anti-bribery and corruption issues
2. Protecting yourself, staff and your organisation against corruption
3. Questions and Answers
Who should attendParticipants will receive a certificate of attendance for their continuing professional development (CPD) hours.
About Chris DouglasChris recently appeared on ABC 7.30 to discuss the ethical issues of politicians accepting Qantas Chairman's Lounge. He has also written online about ACCC executives enjoying membership of Chairman's in the midst of an investigation into Qantas.
For over 31 years, Chris Douglas worked for the Australian Federal Police investigating financial crime (fraud, money laundering, & corruption) and crimes involving drug trafficking, people smuggling and human trafficking in Australia and in the Asia/Pacific region. With the AFP he also managed the Intelligence and the Investigations functions of the Perth Office.
Since retiring from the AFP in 2014, Chris was employed as a senior analyst in the Financial Crime Services area of the National Australia Bank, as a consultant to the United National Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Nigeria; the UNODC South-East Asia and on a Pacific anti-corruption project managed by the United Nations Development Programme.
For several years he was a consultant and trainer for the Commonwealth Africa Anti-Corruption Centre in Botswana, where he delivered financial crime training programmes (face to face and via online seminar) to participants from 15 Commonwealth Africa countries.
Chris is the owner of Malkara Consulting and has delivered training and/or consultancy services on financial crime (financial investigations, AML/CFT compliance and/or anti-bribery and corruption) in Australia, Asia (Cambodia, China, Indonesia; Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Pakistan); the Pacific (via webinar to participants from every country and face to face in Fiji); Africa (face to face in Nigeria and Botswana), and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi Police force) for government and non-government sectors.
