All Anti-Bribery articles – Page 2
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SFO vs. Unaoil highlights vital compliance issues
How the U.K.’s key anti-bribery and corruption agency conducts its ongoing Unaoil investigation may provide compliance officers with helpful insight should they ever find themselves dealing with it in the future.
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Announcing the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy
The Department of Justice announced today that it will not only make permanent the incentives of its FCPA Pilot Program, but sweetened it with a bonus: the opportunity to receive a declination. More details on the revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy are inside.
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SEC makes an example of Alere
A recent enforcement action against a medical manufacturer for revenue recognition failures and bribery illustrates some interesting new enforcement trends for the SEC.
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Mastercard releases anti-bribery training film
Chief ethics and compliance officers seeking real-life stories of corruption that they can embed into their existing online anti-bribery compliance training will want to check out a new anti-bribery training film from Front-Line Anti-Bribery and Mastercard.
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Assessing bribery risk country-by-country
The 2017 TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix is out, designed to help compliance departments assess the likelihood of bribery in each country around the world and better tailor their due diligence practices.
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Transparency International U.K. launches anti-bribery portal
Transparency International U.K. has launched a new online tool that provides up-to-date and in-depth guidance for businesses in understanding and tackling bribery.
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Guilty plea in PDVSA FCPA case
A partial owner of several energy companies pleaded guilty this week to foreign bribery charges for his role in a scheme to corruptly secure contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
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Righting a wrong: Compliance lessons from Telia
Telia Company shares in candid detail what compliance lessons it learned following its recent $956 million global bribery settlement. Those in the ethics, compliance, and legal community will want to listen up.
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The new trend in FCPA compliance is cooperation
We may be seeing the dawn of a golden age of FCPA compliance as organizations and the government learn to work together so everybody stays clean.
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Report: Anti-bribery compliance gaining steam
A new benchmark report jointly conducted by Compliance Week and Steele Compliance Solutions looks at companies’ anti-bribery and anti-corruption programs.
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Anti-corruption and human rights make Olympic debut
Starting with the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, Olympic host cities must agree to abide by certain anti-corruption and human rights principles meant to clean up the world of global sports.
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FCPA protects the safety and health of Americans
Some continue to believe that bribery and corruption that occurs outside the United States does not concern the United States, its laws, or is even worth the time of U.S. law enforcement agencies. This myopic view belies both the inter-connectedness of the world’s economy and the facts on the ground.
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A deep dive into the World Bank’s investigation process
Debarments from the World Bank are just one way in which companies can run afoul of serious compliance problems if they are not careful.
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Airbus revamping its compliance controls
Airbus announced this month the establishment of an independent review panel to help improve its compliance controls and culture, as the European aircraft maker faces numerous investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption across several countries.
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SocGen and Libya bribery settlement
A look at the recent billion-dollar, out-of-court settlement between French banking group Socie´te´ Ge´ne´rale and Libya’s sovereign wealth fund.
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A good day for the rule of law in Romania
Romania sees additional protests, as government tries to sneak more laws into place that would weaken the fight against corruption.
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SFO investigates KBR over Unaoil
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office confirmed that it has opened an investigation into the activities of engineering and construction company KBR for suspected bribery and corruption offenses.
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FIFA audit official pleads guilty to corruption charges, gets suspended
A member of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of wire fraud conspiracy for his participation in multiple schemes to accept and pay bribes to soccer officials and received a 90-day suspension by FIFA from all football activities at both the national and international level.
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BRF executives charged in ‘Operation Weak Flesh’ probe
Brazilian food company BRF confirmed in a statement that two of its executives were among those arrested and charged with taking part in a widespread corruption scandal, dubbed “Operation Weak Flesh.”