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What are the current and emerging ethics and compliance issues impacting the defense, aerospace and security industries? How is the industry responding to new challenges?
The International Forum on Business Ethical Conduct (IFBEC) for the Aerospace and Defense Industry announced that registration is open for its 2019 Annual Conference.… Continue Reading
Airbus Group SE, already under investigation in the UK and France for suspected corruption, said in a company release Tuesday that it found “inaccuracies in filings” made with the U.S. Department of State under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.… Continue Reading
The UK Serious Fraud Office has been investigating corruption allegations against Airbus subsidiary GPT on a Saudi contract overseen by the UK Military of Defense. The case has alarming similarities with the BAE-Al Yamamah case from a decade ago.… Continue Reading
The Financial Reporting Council is investigating KPMG for failing to spot large-scale bribery at Rolls-Royce. But there are serious questions whether the regulator, which is yet to impose a sanction in a corruption-related case, will carry out a proper inquiry.… Continue Reading
There’s a growing sense that agents and intermediaries that facilitate corrupt deals are immune from prosecution in the UK.
The Unaoil case — and it should be stressed that no allegations of corruption against the company have been proven — provides an opportunity to rectify this perception of impunity for intermediaries.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Counsel, International Compliance
Employer: BAE Systems 
Location: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Description
The Office of International Compliance at BAE Systems, Inc. consists of three attorneys – the VP and Associate General Counsel International Compliance, the Counsel, International Compliance, and a Principal Attorney, as well as two Senior International Compliance Specialists.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Import Export Analyst
Employer: BAE Systems, Inc.
Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States
General Job Description:
Reviews, monitors, and reports the company’s international trade activities against U.S. Government international trade laws and regulations specific to controlled products, services, technology and software.… Continue Reading
Job Title: International Compliance Specialist
Employer: BAE Systems Inc.
Primary Location: Arlington, Virginia USA
Job Description:
BAE Systems has a job opening for an International Compliance Specialist in Arlington, VA.… Continue Reading
A survey by Saudi Arabia’s National Anti-Corruption Commission found that 67.8 percent of the respondents believe financial and state corruption is on the rise in the country.
Osman bin Salih al-Amir, a lecturer at Ha’il Teachers College, told Press TV the results also “show that 92.1 percent of Saudi nationals hold nepotism responsible for the spread of corruption in their country.”… Continue Reading
This post, the second of two parts, is based on an article that first appeared in the Magazine of the Deutsch-Amerkanische Juristen-Vereinigung by T. Markus Funk.
He’s a partner at Perkins Coie specializing in global anti-corruption compliance and internal investigations.… Continue Reading
With its $152.6 million FCPA enforcement action Tuesday, Weatherford International has landed ninth on our list of the Top 10 FCPA cases of all time.
Nine of the ten biggest cases still involve non-U.S.… Continue Reading
The identities and credentials of witnesses against BAE Systems were revealed in files the Serious Fraud Office accidentally shipped to the wrong address.
In written parliamentary answers to the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, the government said witness ‘identities were among the 32,000 documents, 81 audio tapes and electronic media from 59 sources’ revealed in the misplaced documents.… Continue Reading
