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On September 1, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with the three heads of Ukraine’s government anti-corruption institutions. The backdrop of the meeting was growing calls in the United States and elsewhere to limit military aid to Ukraine because of the wartime graft problem.… Continue Reading
Early last year, when Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco began describing sanctions as “the new FCPA,” she didn’t mean sanctions enforcement would replace the FCPA. She meant the DOJ is working to replicate the success of FCPA enforcement by using some of the same strategies — a high-intensity focus on finding and punishing violators, deploying innovative tools, promoting international cooperation, and so on.
It’s not just your company where it’s happening. It’s every company, everywhere, all at once, and it’s undermining compliance. What is it? Uncertainty. … Continue Reading
Even by today’s larcenous standards, last week’s indictment of a former Apple software engineer for theft of trade secrets is shocking. The DOJ accuses Weibo Wang of stealing the heart and soul of Apple’s self-driving car technology, including the architecture for an autonomous system and the “entire autonomy source code.”… Continue Reading
American pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer disclosed this month that the DOJ and SEC’s investigation into possible FCPA violations has expanded to Mexico, the third county named so far.… Continue Reading
Russia’s leading opposition politician and anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny marked two years in prison last month, posting a statement on social media that urges followers to oppose “corrupt judges, false propagandists, and Kremlin thieves.”… Continue Reading
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to recall the biggest stories from the FCPA Blog. Here are my choices for the top five stories we’ve covered during 2022, along with some personal favorites for honorable mention.… Continue Reading
Some time ago, I wrote a post for the FCPA Blog stating that pandemic-related fraud was a ticking time bomb, and that global governments and financial institutions were perched uncomfortably atop this explosive device.… Continue Reading
Since the onset of Russia’s War in Ukraine, the United States and European Union have attempted to apply economic pressure on both the Russian economy and Russian oligarchs. Unfortunately, Russian oligarch assets abroad are not exactly transparent, making serving such justice a formidable task.… Continue Reading
This post is about internet censorship. That, ironically, is a prohibited topic under China’s rapidly expanding censorship regime. Because I’ll talk about SEC registrants who warn investors about China’s internet censorship as a risk factor, that’ll likely add to the illegality.… Continue Reading
In the past couple of months, sanction list screening has become one of the most critical compliance tasks. A single question has triggered much of the change: “Are my business partners and other third parties I deal with really sanctioned?”… Continue Reading
As the recent high-level and healthy debate on the FCPA Blog has shown, there are various ways to gather and analyze corruption-risk data at the country level, all of which have respective pros and cons but nevertheless are indispensable in our era of risk-based compliance decision-making.… Continue Reading