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From the China Compliance Digest (Issue No. 4: February 27, 2012):
Three officials in China have been fired after being named as accomplices by Wu Ying, a one-time billionaire currently awaiting Supreme Court review of her death sentence.… Continue Reading
Last week in Houston the three KBR-related sentences ranged from 30 months in prison for Jack Stanley to just a year of unsupervised probation for Wojciech Chodan. Jeffrey Tesler was in the middle with 21 months in jail.… Continue Reading
Lord Acton (1834 – 1902)A New York Times story about the collapse of the Africa sting prosecution quoted me as saying “that in settlements without a trial, ‘the power of Justice is unchecked.’… Continue Reading
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For a limited time, subscribers to the FCPA Blog will receive a complimentary one-month subscription to the China Compliance Digest.… Continue Reading
But two cases on the United States Supreme Court’s docket this week could change that.… Continue Reading
Three executives from oil services firm Noble Corporation were charged today by the Securities and Exchange Commission with bribing officials in Nigeria in exchange for illegal import permits for drilling rigs.… Continue Reading
Mike Koehler of the FCPA Professor talked to Reuters’ Brett Wolf this week about the DOJ’s promised FCPA guidance.
Don’t have high hopes for change, Koehler said.
Late last year, the DOJ’s Lanny Breuer announced his intention to release new FCPA guidance during 2012.… Continue Reading
The biggest FCPA enforcement action in history came to a close today with the sentencing of the mastermind behind the $182 million bribery scheme.
Albert ‘Jack’ Stanley, left, was ordered by Judge Keith B.… Continue Reading
The London lawyer who delivered more than $130 million in bribes to Nigerian officials was sentenced today in Houston to 21 months in federal prison.
Jeffrey Tesler, left, pleaded guilty in March last year to an FCPA conspiracy and to violating the FCPA.… Continue Reading
The Times said this week that a new report blames the overall lack of a coherent U.K. government strategy for impeding the fight against overseas corruption and recommends a new ‘super’ agency that would knock the SFO out of its lead role.… Continue Reading
China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) announced this month that it will require procurators (prosecutors) to report attempts to manipulate the criminal justice system with illicit lobbying.
Prosecutors will also be required to provide reports of all meetings with people involved in their cases, including suspects, attorneys, and family members.… Continue Reading
Wojciech Chodan, the former U.K.-based KBR manager charged with helping his company and its partners pay $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials, was given a very lenient sentence today by Judge Keith P.… Continue Reading
