All Anti-Bribery articles – Page 40
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Key Energy: Justice Department has closed FCPA investigation
Key Energy Services, an oilfield services company, said last week that the Department of Justice has decided not to file any charges against it in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Key said it's also reached an agreement in principle with ...
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In Brazil, accountability has to start somewhere
The effort to unseat embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is receiving criticism because it is really an effort by her even more corrupt rivals to grab power. While that may be correct, does it matter, asks Editor Bill Coffin. Or is it just a handy excuse for giving Rousseff and ...
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Unaoil-Can things get any bigger?
The Justice Department and SEC have their work cut out for them, says FCPA blogger Tom Fox, as the Monaco-based Unaoil scandal—in which the company used commissions to bribe clients—may be the biggest corruption enforcement action yet.
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France introduces anti-corruption bill
France’s Finance Minister Michel Sapin introduced a proposed anti-corruption bill, Sapin II, to the French government last month that in many respects is inspired by anti-corruption laws already in place in the United States and United Kingdom. The bill, for example, “provides for the offense of corruptly influencing a foreign ...
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Newmont Mining discloses FCPA investigation
Newmont Mining said this week in a securities filing that it is conducting an investigation relating to certain business activities of the company, its affiliates, and contractors in countries outside the United States. The gold mining company added that the investigation includes a review of compliance with the U.S. Foreign ...
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Carrots and sticks: A closer look at the FCPA Pilot Program
The Department of Justice has churned out a brief, but valuable, piece of guidance setting forth the details of a one-year FCPA enforcement pilot program, providing companies with much needed and long-awaited transparency into how the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section measures and credits voluntary self-disclosure and cooperation in FCPA investigations. ...
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The other cleat drops in the FIFA corruption probe
Image: The FIFA corruption probe has shifted to U.S. corporations that did business with FIFA, regional soccer federations, and national soccer organizations, prompting some companies, including Nike, DirectTV, and Standard Chartered, to start their own internal investigations. The message is quite clear for those U.S. companies with affiliations to soccer ...
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Unaoil bribery scandal offers harsh lesson in due diligence controls
Image: CCOs can learn a lesson or two from the massive media-leaked bribery and corruption scandal surrounding Monaco-based Unaoil. “Unaoil’s due diligence reports contained a number of items that increased their risk level substantially, but there was no credible evidence of bribery or other misconduct,” says Alexandra Wrage, president of ...
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NICE Actimize launches AML cloud solution
NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems business and provider of financial crime, risk and compliance software for the financial services industry, announced the launch of its Actimize AML Essentials Anti-Money Laundering Cloud solution, providing end-to-end packaged AML compliance capabilities designed specifically for the unique needs of mid-sized financial institutions.
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New Justice Department guidance and FCPA Pilot Program
When the DoJ speaks, chief compliance officers should listen—especially when the talks center on enforcement. The agency has launched a pilot program for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement that details three areas of self-disclosure to be required by companies going forward. If a company meets all three areas, it could ...
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Will Olympus see FCPA trouble in China?
Trouble seems to follow Japan-based Olympus. The company, which admitted in 2011 to a $1.7 billion accounting fraud, is once again facing corruption allegations. Olympus hired China-based Anyuanto to help turn it around, despite the fact that Anyuan’s chairman had previously been convicted of fraud; Olympus’ contract wasn’t with Anyuan ...
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Special report: Are FCPA actions merely a slap on the wrist?
Companies on the receiving end of an FCPA enforcement action often face monitoring, fines, and litigation as a result. But many times, what they don’t experience is a drop in their share price. In fact, among the largest FCPA violations on record, many companies saw no drop in share price. ...
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SEC obtains settlement in kickback scheme
Seven individuals from broker-dealer Direct Access Partners settled charges with the SEC last week for their role in a massive kickback scheme to secure the bond trading business of a state-owned Venezuelan bank. As Compliance Week previously reported, the SEC and Department of Justice unsealed criminal charges in May 2013 ...
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The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker … in Cuba, they are all covered under the FCPA
The winds of change are coming to Cuba, and U.S. businesses are slowly, but surely, beginning to get their long-awaited opportunities to set up shop in one of the world’s last truly socialist states. But this brings with it a most unusual FCPA liability that makes doing business in Cuba ...
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Las Vegas Sands pays $9 million for FCPA violations
Las Vegas Sands has agreed to pay a $9 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by failing to properly authorize or document millions of dollars in payments to a consultant facilitating business activities in China and Macao.
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ISO 37001 anti-bribery standard gains momentum
Image: The push to adopt ISO 37001, a uniform set of international anti-bribery management system standards, is gaining momentum on a global scale and ultimately will raise the bar for compliance officers looking to reinforce their anti-bribery compliance programs. “This is the first time that you will have an internationally ...
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Braid Group to pay £2.2 million in bribery case
Scotland’s prosecution service this week announced a £2.2 million civil settlement with Braid Group (Holdings), a Glasgow-based diversified global logistics company to resolve allegations that it obtained business through unlawful conduct. In a statement, Linda Hamilton, head of the Civil Recovery Unit, said that “Braid is to be commended for ...
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Criminal Division launches new FCPA pilot program
Effective today, the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division has launched a one-year “pilot program” in the Fraud Section’s FCPA Unit as part of the agency’s effort to promote both transparency and accountability. At the end of the one-year pilot period, the Fraud Section will determine whether to extend or modify ...
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FCPA enforcement ramps up in Q1 2016
If it looks like FCPA enforcement is at a low ebb, judging by the amount of activity we saw in 2015, don’t be fooled. The SEC is prosecuting FCPA cases with vigor, and if some of the current enforcement actions underway are any indicator, we will not see a significant ...
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VimpelCom discloses more details on FCPA damages
Amsterdam-based VimpelCom, a global telecommunication services provider, said last week in its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has set aside $105 million for legal expenses associated with its $795 million settlement reached last month with U.S. and Dutch prosecutors for paying bribes to a government ...