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Swiss logistics giant Panalpina said yesterday it has reserved about $110 million for an expected FCPA settlement with the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission and a seperate antitrust resolution.… Continue Reading
Sentencing for Gerald and Patricia Green was delayed for the fourth time Thursday and rescheduled to June 3rd. The Hollywood producers were convicted last year of paying $1.8 million in bribes to a Thai official in exchange for contracts worth about $13.5 million to produce the Bangkok Film Festival.… Continue Reading
The SEC said today that it brought a civil enforcement action against four former employees of Dimon, Inc., now Alliance One International, Inc. It charged them with violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and aiding and abetting violations.… Continue Reading
Andy Spalding, a lawyer on a year-long Fulbright Research Grant in Mumbai, India, writes to us from time to time. Here’s his latest dispatch:
Dear FCPA Blog,
I have just returned from a week in Almaty, Kazakhstan, which your readers know to be an FCPA hot spot.… Continue Reading
A U.K.-funded anti-corruption court in Afghanistan this week sentenced the manager of a British company that guards the British embassy in Kabul to two years in prison for bribery.
Bill Shaw, a 28-year British army veteran who retired as a major and was awarded the MBE, will be sent next week to one of the country’s most notorious jails, Pul-e-Charkhi, according to reports from the Guardian and others.… Continue Reading
As part of its online make-over, the Justice Department has now indexed FCPA enforcement actions from mid-2004 onward. They’re listed alphabetically and can all be found on a public page called FCPA and Related Enforcement Actions.… Continue Reading
Professor Elizabeth Spahn from New England Law | Boston spoke at Georgetown’s symposium in March on combating global corruption. She made the case against bribery, debunking the old excuses that sometimes graft is necessary, or culturally acceptable, or that it’s a victimless crime.… Continue Reading
Australia is the world’s sixth largest country by land mass, only slightly smaller than America’s lower 48 states. With just 22 million people and abundant resources, the country exports coal, iron ore, gold, uranium, alumina, meat, wool and wheat, as well as wine, olives, fruit and vegetables.… Continue Reading
The end came last month for a privately-held American company called Nexus Technologies. It pleaded guilty to conspiracy and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Travel Act. As part of its plea, Nexus admitted to operating “primarily through criminal means” — and it agreed to cease operations.… Continue Reading
The Justice Department yesterday issued the first FCPA Opinion Procedure Release of 2010, and the first since August 2009.
A U.S. company submitted a request on February 24 this year, with supplemental information on March 19.… Continue Reading
A judge in London said today that KBR’s one-time sales manager accused by the U.S. of helping bribe Nigerian officials should be extradited to Texas to face trial.
Wojciech Chodan, 71, of Maidenhead, England, who’s a U.K.… Continue Reading
Two former senior managers from Siemens who were central actors in the company’s global bribery scandal were convicted by a criminal court in Germany Tuesday but let off with only probation and fines.… Continue Reading