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Oil services firm Nabors Industries Ltd. said Wednesday the DOJ won’t bring an FCPA enforcement action after an investigation first launched more than five years ago.
Nabors was a customer of Panalpina but not among the seven companies that settled FCPA cases on the same day in November 2010.… Continue Reading
Giuseppe Orsi, chairman and CEO of Finmeccanica (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)The head of Italian defense firm Finmeccanica SpA was arrested Tuesday by Italian police on allegations that he bribed Indian officials to win sales of helicopters.… Continue Reading
The CEO of Italian energy giant Eni SpA is under investigation by Italian authorities for bribes allegedly paid in Algeria by its subsidiary Saipem SpA.
Eni said Paolo Scaroni is a target of the probe.… Continue Reading
Italian oil and gas drilling contractor Saipem SpA confirmed that it is under investigation for corruption by Italian authorities for alleged payments in Algeria.
Saipem’s board said Wednesday the payments allegedly relate to conduct that occurred before 2009.… Continue Reading
Oil services firm Nabors Industries Ltd. was a customer of Panalpina but not among the six that settled FCPA cases on the same historic day in November 2010.
Panalpina, a Swiss-based logistics firm, admitted paying bribes to help customers move their drill rigs and other equipment in and out of Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Nigeria, among others.… Continue Reading
Three Chinese executives were found guilty of bribery in Algeria and sentenced last week to ten years in prison in absentia.
According to a report on the French language news site Le Soir D’Algerie, ZTE’s Dong Tao and Chen Zhibo and Huawei’s Xiao Chuhfa were accused of paying bribes amounting to $10 million to a senior official working at state-owned Algérie Télécom, through offshore accounts in Luxembourg.… Continue Reading
More than half the journalists murdered in the line of duty were working to expose corruption.
“Murder, after all, is the ultimate form of censorship,” wrote Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).… Continue Reading
German police last Thursday raided a global pipeline-equipment supplier on suspicion of bribing foreign officials to win work.
The raid came two weeks after Eginhard Vietz, 69, the owner and managing director of Hanover-based Vietz GmbH, gave an interview to the German business newspaper Handelsblatt.… Continue Reading
Mohamed Meziane, the chief of Algeria’s state energy company Sonatrach, and ten other executives are under investigation for corruption, according to reports.The head of Algeria’s state energy firm Sonatrach and ten other company executives are under investigation for corruption.
