- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office this week charged two individuals in relation to the ongoing Unaoil investigation.
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Following a four-year investigation, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office has secured convictions against two former Unaoil executives for bribes made to win oil services contracts in Iraq, although the presiding judge ordered a review into how SFO Director Lisa Osofsky led the case.
John Wood Group said in a regulatory filing it has reserved $46 million in a potential settlement with authorities in the United States, Brazil, and Scotland related to a bribery investigation concerning ties to Monaco-based oil services firm Unaoil.
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.
