For a business that routinely makes multibillion-dollar deals with governments and controversial leaders in the developing world, the mining industry has been remarkably free of regulatory scrutiny. No longer. World leaders gathering in Northern Ireland for the Group of Eight summit in mid-June called for tighter oversight by requiring companies to disclose all payments made to foreign governments. The new rules, aimed at exposing corruption, come as U.S. and British regulators probe companies including BHP Billiton and Eurasian Natural Resources. "Mining has been caught in the headlights in the past few months," says Raj Karia, a partner in London at law firm Norton Rose Ful-bright. "The environment has changed. There is more need now to be very sure of what you're buying and aware of the history of an asset."
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机译：对于通常与发展中国家政府和有争议的领导人达成数十亿美元交易的企业而言，采矿业一直没有受到监管的审查。不再。 6月中旬，聚集在北爱尔兰参加八国集团峰会的世界各国领导人呼吁加强监管，要求公司披露对外国政府的所有付款。旨在揭露腐败现象的新规定是在美国和英国监管机构对包括必和必拓和欧亚自然资源公司在内的公司进行调查之际发布的。诺顿·罗斯·富布赖特（Norton Rose Ful-bright）律师事务所伦敦合伙人拉吉·卡里亚（Raj Karia）说：“过去几个月，矿业一直备受关注。” “环境已经改变。现在，我们需要更加确定您要购买的商品并了解资产的历史。”
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