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Dear FCPA Blog,
Thanks for the post about cooperation with the DOJ, which quoted from a recent talk by the DOJ’s Leslie Caldwell. Unfortunately, my real world experience in FCPA investigations and cooperation has looked slightly different. … Continue Reading
I’ve been attending the HCCA’s 19th Annual Compliance Institute this week in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
The Health Care Compliance Association is a non-profit membership group for compliance professionals in the healthcare-provider field.… Continue Reading
China has chosen seven audit firms including PwC, BDO, and Grant Thornton to examine the overseas assets of major state-owned enterprises (SOEs) following an open tender held last month.
The move came after a former audit official warned that more than 110 SOEs’ overseas assets valued at about 4 trillion yuan ($637 billion) were not audited due to insufficient audit staff.… Continue Reading
BOTA had three programs, with its largest, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, briefly explained in the previous post. Funds from the Pictet and Cie bank account associated with James Giffen and President Nazarbayev were used in two other ways to help poor children and youth in Kazakhstan: via a NGO grants program, called the Social Service Program (SSP), and through a scholarship program known as the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). … Continue Reading