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A Swiss citizen who worked for California-based Maxwell Technologies Inc was indicted Tuesday for bribing officials at state-owned companies in China.
Alain Riedo was charged in San Diego with nine counts of violating the FCPA, conspiracy, falsifying records, and evading Maxwell’s internal controls.… Continue Reading
As December is a time for reflection on the past twelve months, I have been considering the FCPA Enforcement Action year.
I submit for your consideration my Top 10 FCPA Enforcement Actions for 2011 in the Corporate Division.… Continue Reading
The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower (yes, it’s real) published its first list of enforcement actions that might be eligible for whistleblower rewards. It includes FCPA-related cases.
On the November 1 list — under the heading of ‘Claim an Award’ — are completed enforcement actions against companies and people that resulted in judgments or orders issued after July 21, 2010 with sanctions of more than $1 million.… Continue Reading
During the first quarter of 2011, two earlier FCPA-related indictments were disclosed. And there were four corporate actions, four guilty pleas, including two shot-show defendants and the former KBR middleman Jeffrey Tesler, who was hit with the biggest forfeiture order in FCPA history, and two sentencings of individuals to prison.… Continue Reading
California-based Maxwell Technologies Inc. agreed with the DOJ to pay $8 million to resolve criminal FCPA charges and with the SEC to pay $6.3 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest to resolve civil charges.… Continue Reading