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The prior post talked about a colossal plan by Kazakhstan president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to privatize some 7,000 state-controlled companies that now control over 40% of the nation’s economy.
As I said, Kazakhstan has traditionally welcomed foreign investment.… Continue Reading
The OP Jindal Global University, the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law are organizing the first ever Conference of Business Ethics and Corruption in the Globalized World.… Continue Reading
At November’s 32nd ACI Foreign Corrupt Practices Act conference in Washington, DC, the DOJ’s new Compliance Counsel, Hui Chen, emphasized that compliance programs need to be real and not just paper programs. … Continue Reading
The FIFA ethics committee has imposed eight-year suspensions on both the current and once-likely future presidents of FIFA. This effectively topples FIFA’s once-entrenched ruling hierarchy, and marks the most important achievements to date of the U.S.-led… Continue Reading
Brazilian prosecutors charged 12 people Thursday after a new probe into alleged bribery involving SBM Offshore and Petrobras.
Former SBM chief executive officers Anthony Mace and Didier Keller were charged with corruption and racketeering along with former senior vice president Robert Zubiate.… Continue Reading
Chevron scored another victory Wednesday in an ongoing legal battle tied to 20-year pollution case in Ecuador.
The Supreme Court of Gibraltar granted Chevron a $28 million award after issuing a judgment against Amazonia Recovery Ltd, a Gibraltar-based company established to receive and distribute funds resulting from a contentious 2011 Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron.… Continue Reading
The OECD is inviting papers from practitioners and academics, including graduate students, for the 2016 OECD Integrity Forum ‘Fighting the Hidden Tariff: Global Trade without Corruption’, to be held at the OECD, Paris, France on April 19 – 20, 2016.… Continue Reading
The Justice Department said Sunday two men were arrested last week for an alleged bribery scheme to win work from Venezuela’s state-owned energy company, Reuters reported.
Roberto Rincon was arrested Wednesday in Houston.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Global Compliance Enablement Manager
Employer: Cisco
Location: San Jose, California USA
Additional Locations: Chicago, Richardson, or Austin
Description:
Manager of Compliance will support initiatives around developing, initiating, maintaining, and revising policies and procedures for the general operation of the Global Compliance Enablement Program and its related activities to assess and remediate risk attendant with violations of the Code of Business Conduct (COBC); as well as management of the day-to-day operation of the Ethics Program company-wide.… Continue Reading
A Miami-based broker from Direct Access Partners was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for being the middleman in a scheme to bribe a Venezuela state bank official in exchange for bond trading work.… Continue Reading
Dr. Klaus Moosmayer is the Chief Compliance Officer of Siemens AG (Image courtesy of Siemens)There is still the (dangerous) myth — especially in media and sometimes at enforcement agencies — that compliance has failed when a company reports acts of misconduct.… Continue Reading
I witnessed an amazing era of development in Kazakhstan when I moved to Almaty in 1994 as a legal advisor on a USAID-sponsored legal reform project.
Despite the great promise of those earlier years, this ex-Soviet republic with huge oil and metal deposits and a once-thriving exports with China and Russia is now facing a prolonged economic slump.… Continue Reading
