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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) debarred a Belgian engineering and consultancy company Monday for three years and ten months for fraudulent and corrupt practices related to a project in Haiti.… Continue Reading
Corruption can no longer be addressed as a legalistic or compliance issue by executives and directors. Nor is it enough to regard it as an ethical issue. Righteousness is not and will never be a guarantee for directors and executives.… Continue Reading
Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote a post for the FCPA Blog analyzing the impact that China’s leadership transition to Xi Jinping would have on anti-corruption enforcement in China. This post assesses those predictions and makes new ones for the coming five years, in light of the recently concluded Party Congress.… Continue Reading
In early June 2016, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Chinese Communist Party’s corruption watchdog, attacked the government’s own propaganda department, stating that it “lacks depth in its research into developing contemporary China’s Marxism” and that “there are also weak spots in implementing the principle of ‘the party controls the media.’”… Continue Reading
Sri Lanka this month became the latest of at least five countries to shut down huge China-backed infrastructure and telecoms projects tainted by allegations of corruption.
The new government in Colombo suspended a $1.5 billion construction project for a port upgrade awarded to China Harbor Engineering Co Ltd, a subsidiary of state-owned China Communications Construction Company, or CCC.… Continue Reading
President Xi Jinping visits UNESCO in Paris in 2014A new phase has begun in the maturation of China as an economic superpower, an era that President Xi Jinping has taken to calling “the new normal.”… Continue Reading
Xi Jinping’s luxury-slashing regulations for China’s officials would be a challenge to implement at any time of year, but the Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, poses a particular problem.… Continue Reading