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A company’s failure to prevent bribery is likely to be a punishable offence as the government proposes to amend the prevention of Corruption Act to include bribing gives as much as those who receive it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday while addressing the annual conference of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the State Anti-Corruption Bureaus.