“A corporation pays an affordable sum in damages. The court issues a stern scolding. Onward to business as usual.”
“Criminal prosecutions usually target executives, rather than the companies they run – and even then, accountability is rare. ‘I can only think of three businessmen who’ve been convicted over the last 20 years, for complicity in war crimes or crimes against humanity – and none before that,’ says Mark Taylor, the author of a book titled War Economies and International Law. ‘And I can’t think of a single company that has ever been convicted on either of these charges’.”
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