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Russia’s biggest mobile phone company will pay $850 million in penalties to the DOJ and SEC to resolve FCPA violations, the SEC and the company said Wednesday.
MTS agreed to the SEC’s order finding that it violated the anti-bribery, books and records, and internal accounting controls provisions of the FCPA and will pay a $100 million penalty to the SEC.… Continue Reading
Federal court opinions interpreting the FCPA are rare indeed — my informal tally puts the number at a dozen or so since 1977. This week, that number increased by one, thanks to the 9th Circuit’s opinion in Wadler v.… Continue Reading
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Monday an award of more than $2 million to an individual whistleblower for original information that led to a successful CFTC enforcement action.… Continue Reading