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Petrobras CEO Aldemir Bendine. (Image courtesy of EXAME.com/Youtube)Brazil’s state-owned oil giant is filing five joint lawsuits against engineering and construction firms to recover about $424 million tied to a long-running corruption scheme.
A former top official in China’s powerful central planning agency confessed in court Wednesday to taking bribes from various companies, including a Toyota Motor Corporation joint venture.
Agents for Wal-Mart’s joint venture in India who ‘procured numerous licenses’ from the government threatened legal action after they were fired and not paid money they say they’re owed.
Two U.K. citizens who allegedly helped Houston-based Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) bribe Nigerian officials have been indicted for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Jeffrey Tesler, 60, of London, England, and Wojciech Chodan, 71, of Maidenhead, England, were indicted on Feb. 17, 2009 by a federal grand jury sitting in Houston. The Justice Department […]
The fourth member of the TSKJ consortium — JGC Corporation of Japan — and the only one that hasn’t settled Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges with the U.S. government, disclosed in its latest annual report that it’s in talks with the DOJ “about a potential resolution” of FCPA-related charges. The company did not say how […]
United Technologies Corporation agreed Wednesday to pay the SEC $13.9 million to resolve charges that it violated the FCPA by making illicit payments in its elevator and aircraft engine businesses.
Last week, I introduced the different types of Collective Action. This week, we’ll take a closer look at the most common form of Collective Action for fighting corruption: declarations and joint activities.
Last month the international business community, in the form of the business B20 group, put out a call for G20 nations to develop national-level anti-corruption strategies (June 22, 2018, B20 and C20 joint statement on implementation of national anti-corruption strategies). They see this as a necessary complement to the efforts by G20 nations on asset recovery, beneficial ownership transparency, asset disclosure, open data and public procurement integrity.
Albert Jack Stanley (Credit PBS’s Frontline)A federal judge in Houston last week postponed sentencing for Albert “Jack” Stanley until September 23, 2010. The former chairman and CEO of KBR pleaded guilty in September 2008 to a two-count criminal information charging him with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and to commit mail and […]
Belgium’s Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV said in an SEC filing this week that the DOJ has opened an FCPA investigation of the company.
