As highlighted here, in May 2022 Glencore (a commodities company incorporated in the United Kingdom and headquartered in Switzerland) resolved a net $443 million FCPA enforcement action.
According to the DOJ: “From at least in or about 2007 up to
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Immigrant of the Day: Actor Bambadjan Bamba (Ivory Coast)
mmigrant of the Day: Actor Bambadjan Bamba has made an effort to show the humanity of Dreamers everywhere by announcing his status as a DACA recipient and opening up about his experiences being an undocumented immigrant in America. Bamba,…
Changing nations: from the Three Lions to Les Éléphants
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Crystal Palace winger and England international Wilfried Zaha had submitted a request to FIFA to “swap” his international allegiance from England to the Ivory Coast.
However, if you rewind just 4 years, such…
Canada Continues To Impose Economic Sanctions Against Ivory Coast
Canada imposed economic sanctions against Ivory Coast to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572. The multilateral economic sanctions are imposed pursuant to the United Nations Act and the United Nations Côte D’Ivoire Regulations. However, on April 28, 2016,…
Loss of cargo due to piracy held not to be an “in-transit loss”
Trafigura Beheer BV v Navigazione Montanari SpA [2015] EWCA Civ 91
The subject vessel was chartered to carry a cargo of oil from Abidjan, Ivory Coast to Lagos, Nigeria. Clause 46 of the charter (on an amended BPVOY3 form) incorporated…
Prisoners Fall in Love Through Peephole
By Family Law
"Two prisoners in an Ivory Coast jail who courted and fell in love through a peephole in an iron door have been released for a few hours to get married, one of their jailers said Friday. Roland Guy Bouabre, serving…
Cheap Spam Joke Update
Bello Sankoh of the Ivory Coast has just offered me $2.3 million to help him expropriate funds, and therefore I have to retract my acceptance of Mr. Al-Mustapha’s offer of $1.2 million. The trick is to play these guys…