Recently, Brazil’s state energy company, Petrobras, was investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities Exchange Commision (SEC) for FCPA violations related to political bribes in Brazil. According to the SEC’s Steven Peikin, Petrobras fraudulently facilitated money through… Read more >
The SEC charged big pharma company, Sanofi, for violating the FCPA’s books and records and internal accounting controls provisions, and allegedly paying bribes across the Middle East and in Kazakhstan to gain more business opportunities. Sanofi had their sales people… Read more >
Credit Suisse Group AG settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on $76.7 million Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) offenses. According to the DOJ, Credit Suisse was involved in a hiring scheme that favored friends and family of Chinese officials… Read more >
A bribery scheme beginning in 2005 and operating up until 2016 was finally shut down by a Federal Judge in Miami, Florida. An official of Aruba’s state-owned telecomms company was sentenced to prison for three years for moving bribe money… Read more >
An investigation by the Israeli police began in November 2016 regarding the possibility of a €430 million (USD $480 million) bribery scheme involving German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp. Accusations were made that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private lawyer and second cousin, David… Read more >
Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, the Chief of Anti-Corruption in Colombia, and Leonardo Luis Pinilla Gomez, an attorney in Colombia, were arrested on the basis of a criminal complaint filed in a federal Miami court for allegedly conspiring to launder money… Read more >
Costas Takkas, a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy in connection with the U.S. bribery investigation involving FIFA, the international governing body of soccer. Takkas was one of 40 other… Read more >
Petrofac, a UK based Oilfield services firm, was recently being investigated by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prompted by suspicion of bribery, corruption, and money laundering related to Unaoil, an industrial solutions company based in Monaco. This past Thursday,… Read more >