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The former CEO of Control Components Inc. was sentenced to four months in prison yesterday and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
Stuart Carson, 72, of San Clemente, California, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the FCPA.… Continue Reading
When the summer of 2012 passed without the DOJ releasing its promised FCPA guidance, attention turned to October 10 as a likely release — the annual meeting of the OECD Working Group on Bribery.… Continue Reading
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has been fired by President Vladimir Putin. The announcement follows a criminal probe into alleged fraud in selling the country’s military assets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced Anatoly Serdyukov with his long-time ally and former Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu.… Continue Reading
A clash of titans in Indonesia provides a poignant illustration of the potential perils of doing business in emerging markets.
A scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Europe, Nat Rothschild, is in dispute with Indonesia’s influential Bakrie family.… Continue Reading
A recent University of Chicago Legal Forum article looks deep into an important new enforcement trend — duplicative enforcement actions in multiple countries.
The article — ‘Carbon Copy” Prosecutions: A Growing Anticorruption Phenomenon in a Shrinking World’ — was written by T.… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: The FCPA Blog’s senior journalist Chua Guan Cheong is in Beijing covering the 18th National Congress, which began on November 8.
Ai Ping is the vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee International Department.… Continue Reading