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Texas-based medical device company Orthofix International N.V. settled FCPA charges today relating to bribes in Mexico.
The company agreed to pay the SEC $5.2 million, including $4.98 million in disgorgement and $242,000 in prejudgment interest.… Continue Reading
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was cleared today by a Jerusalem court of accepting bribes from Morris Talansky, an American businessman.
Olmert, left, had been charged with taking $600,000 from Talansky from 1993 to 2005.… Continue Reading
Chris Matthews of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a former official at state-owned Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. (Haiti telco) was sentenced to a year and a day in prison.
Patrick Joseph, 49, could have been sentenced to twenty years but received leniency in return for his cooperation in the sprawling Haiti telco case, Matthews said.… Continue Reading
Many multinationals operating in China focus on compliance with the FCPA — and rightly so, given the intersection of expanding business opportunities, corruption risks, and the broad range of “foreign officials” present in China.… Continue Reading
Through the generosity of Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker, ethiXbase is now offering readers of the FCPA Blog a free download of the Anti-Corruption Compliance Benchmarking Survey.
The survey was developed last year by Kaplan & Walker LLC and the FCPA Blog.… Continue Reading