The Vitol Enforcement Action
If there were ever a question about energy traders and FCPA risk, a recent FCPA enforcement action against Vitol answers ...
Tag: Anti-Bribery
With Updated AML/CFT Priorities, Businesses Across Verticals Face Unprecedented Exposure to FinCEN and OFAC Scrutiny
Updated enforcement priorities and guidance on facilitating ransomware payments remind companies of all types to establish holistic AML policies and ...
Credit Suisse Ignored $250+ Million Shortfalls and Contracted with “The Master of Kickbacks” to Facilitate the Tuna Bonds Scheme
Credit Suisse agreed to pay $547 million to resolve a bribery and fraud scheme involving investments and financing arrangements for ...
As WPP Grew, FCPA Violations Followed. Then Came SEC Enforcement.
WPP plc grew in to the world's largest advertising agency, in part, by acquiring thousands of subsidiaries. While it found ...
In Break with Tradition, DOJ Indicted Former Ericsson Employee for Role in Foreign Bribery Scheme
A former Ericsson employee allegedly employed "financial sleight-of-hand involving a sham consulting contract, a false due-diligence report, and fake invoices" ...
There’s One Main Barrier to Doing Business in Nigeria: The FCPA
Doing business in Nigeria presents manifold challenges. But in terms of hurdles to clear, the regulations imposed by the FCPA ...
TRACE Global Enforcement Report 2018
Today, TRACE International releases its ninth annual Global Enforcement Report (GER), a country-by-country look at government-led investigations into suspected bribery ...
10 Lessons from Operation Car Wash
The State of Corruption Risk in Latin America The biggest-ever corruption and bribery investigation in Latin America has seen scores ...
TRACE: Duke Cunningham and the Bribe Menu
Marcus Stern, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who broke the story, describes the bribery scheme that landed then-Congressman “Duke” ...
Corporate Doublespeak
A Bribe is a Bribe Why do organizations use sanitized language rather than more direct verbiage? A new generation of ...
National College Admissions Scandal Reveals Corrupt Underbelly of College Exams and Athletic Recruitment
News broke last week of a scandal in which high-profile executives and celebrities allegedly used bribery to secure their children’s ...
Recent FCPA Cases: Lessons for Compliance Personnel
Historic Corruption and Its Modern-Day Impacts Anne Eberhardt, CFE, CAMS and Senior Director at Gavin/Solmonese, discusses two notable cases involving ...
