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The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it awarded more than $400,000 to a whistleblower who reported a fraud to the SEC after the company failed to address the issue internally.… Continue Reading
Earlier this week we talked about Our Lists under the Archive tab in the top menu of the FCPA Blog. Today we want to remind readers of the University of Richmond Online Anti-Bribery Research Guide that can also be found under the Archive tab in the top menu, pictured left.… Continue Reading
When a company suspects a competitor is going to pay bribes, the temptation is to do the same thing. Bribe takers encourage a bribery bidding war. They want the biggest bribe to win the business, not the best price, product or service.… Continue Reading
Regulators in the United Kingdom said Wednesday they won’t adopt incentives for whistleblowers like those in the United States but will help businesses improve their internal reporting and whistleblower protections.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) said they welcomed the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Banking Standards (PCBS) about whistleblowing.… Continue Reading
The Queen’s former deputy property manager was charged Monday with taking more than £100,000 ($160,000) in kickbacks for royal contracts.
Ronald Harper, 61, a senior member of the Royal Household staff, was accused of taking bribes from building, heating and energy firms in exchange for mechanical and electrical work at Buckingham Palace and other properties, the Mail said this week.… Continue Reading
Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. district court in New York on Wednesday ordered Bank of America to pay a $1.27 billion fine for fraud perpetrated by Countrywide Financial Corp., a mortgage company the bank acquired in 2008.… Continue Reading
The Communist Party has urged some 40,700 government officials, including 229 at provincial and ministerial-level, to quit their part-time jobs in private companies.
The action by the party’s Central Organization Department follows a ban on incumbent officials’ employment in private companies issued in October last year.… Continue Reading
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Click on the Archive tab in the top menu of the FCPA Blog to find Our Lists. Included there are FCPA enforcement actions, corporate investigations, the country count for investigations, our current top ten lists, Dean Tillipman’s resources, and more.… Continue Reading
Wikileaks Tuesday released what it said is “an unprecedented Australian censorship order concerning a multi-million dollar corruption case explicitly naming the current and past heads of state of Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, their relatives and other senior officials.”… Continue Reading
Kenny E. Toy, the former Afloat Programs Manager at the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command, was sentenced Tuesday by a federal court in Virginia to serve 96 months in prison for taking bribes.… Continue Reading
A Las Vegas-based former Department of Defense contractor was extradited from Iraq to the United States to face fraud and conspiracy charges for trying to bribe U.S. officials to win government contracts for his companies.… Continue Reading