bribery Articles and News from Corporate Compliance Insights

Corporate ownership in China isn’t always crystal clear. One safe approach: just assume the business is state owned. Tom Fox ...

illustration of two businessmen exchanging a bribe

A Compliance Playbook for “Operation Varsity Blues”

by Sandra Erez

April 22, 2019

Sandra Erez launches a series on the college admissions scandal with timely musings on the long-running bribery scheme that has ...

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National College Admissions Scandal Reveals Corrupt Underbelly of College Exams and Athletic Recruitment

by Michael Volkov

March 22, 2019

News broke last week of a scandal in which high-profile executives and celebrities allegedly used bribery to secure their children’s ...

TRACE Global Enforcement Report 2018

by Corporate Compliance Insights

March 5, 2019

Today, TRACE International releases its ninth annual Global Enforcement Report (GER), a country-by-country look at government-led investigations into suspected bribery ...

The Growing Problem of Corporate Fraud

by Michael Volkov

December 20, 2018

And Striking the Right Balance to Fight It The reality is that the vast majority of corporations have a fraud ...

Common Pitfalls in Third-Party Due Diligence

by Daniel Wendt

December 5, 2018

5 Risky Mistakes Companies Make Third-party relationships result in a majority of FCPA resolutions and investigations. Dan Wendt, member at ...

former Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak

Goldman Sachs and the 1MDB Criminal Prosecutions

by Michael Volkov

November 8, 2018

Indictments and Other Developments Following indictments unsealed last week, Michael Volkov revisits the 1MDB scandal, from the major players to ...

Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi at a state visit in 2008

Recent FCPA Cases: Lessons for Compliance Personnel

by Anne Eberhardt

October 17, 2018

Historic Corruption and Its Modern-Day Impacts Anne Eberhardt, CFE, CAMS and Senior Director at Gavin/Solmonese, discusses two notable cases involving ...

Corporate Doublespeak

by Michael Volkov

August 2, 2018

A Bribe is a Bribe Why do organizations use sanitized language rather than more direct verbiage? A new generation of ...

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TRACE: Duke Cunningham and the Bribe Menu

by TRACE International

July 25, 2018

Marcus Stern, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who broke the story, describes the bribery scheme that landed then-Congressman “Duke” ...

Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners

by Paul Charmatz

April 19, 2018

Getting the Full Picture, Fast Comprehensively identifying and verifying corporate hierarchies and ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) has become increasingly important ...