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Halliburton Company paid the SEC $29.2 million in disgorgement and penalties Thursday for violating the FCPA’s books and records and internal accounting controls provisions.
The SEC said Halliburton gave business to a friend of an Angolan official.… Continue Reading
The subsidiary of a technology company that trades on the Singapore stock exchange paid $12 million in fines Thursday to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for violating trade sanctions against Iran.… Continue Reading
The curious case of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s government structure is a direct product of U.S. involvement in the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the war there in 1995.
The Clinton Administration had a large influence on the Agreement itself, including Annex 7 which remains the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina to this day.… Continue Reading
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network assessed a $110 million civil penalty Wednesday against BTC-e for willfully violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws.
It was FinCEN’s first enforcement action against a foreign-located Money Services Business or MBS doing business in the United States.… Continue Reading