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Bribery
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FCPA Professor
California Court Dismisses Bribery Charges Against Former Apple Inc. Executive For Lack Of Corrupt Intent
By Mike Koehler
California Penal Code Section 67 is similar to the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in that it states: ““Every person who gives or offers any bribe to…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
NCA: Bribery and corruption risk to rise
By Andrew Reeves (UK), Stuart Neely (UK), Pamela Reddy (UK), David Harris (UK)
On 25 May 2021, the National Crime Agency (NCA) published its national strategic assessment of serious and organised crime. Compared to 2020, the NCA concludes that the threat to the…
FCPA Professor
DOJ Announces FCPA And Related Charges In Relation To Griffiths Energy International’s Bribery Scheme Involving Chad
By Mike Koehler
These pages have followed the bribery enforcement action against Canada based Griffiths Energy International (GEI) and related issues for quite a long time. As highlighted in this post, in 2013…
FCPA Professor
Smith & Nephew Under FCPA Scrutiny … Again
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in 2012 medical devices maker Smith & Nephew plc (a U.K. company with ADR shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange) resolved a…
FCPA Professor
Just Don’t Call It Bribery
By Mike Koehler
Here in Packerland, there is much angst over the apparent reluctance of Aaron Rodgers to return to the Green Bay Packers as quarterback. This is no small matter as Rodgers…
Energy Forward
The ABCs of Anti-Corruption and Bribery Law: What Preceded Brazil’s “Operation Car Wash” and What Comes Next?
By Norman Nadorff, Michel Sancovski
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep…
FCPA Professor
“Foreign Official” Sentenced For Money Laundering
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in August 2018 the DOJ quitely posted to its FCPA website a so-called declination with disgorgement letter concerning Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL). Pursuant…
FCPA Professor
Former Braskem CEO Grubisich Pleads Guilty
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in late 2016 the DOJ and SEC brought a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action against Odebrecht S.A. (a Brazilian holding company) and Braskem S.A. (a…
FCPA Professor
Former Gunvor Employee Pleads Guilty In Connection With Ecuador Bribery Scheme
By Mike Koehler
Recently Raymond Kohut (a Canadian citizen who lived in the Bahamas and worked in business development for Gunvor Group Ltd., a Switzerland based commodities firm) pleaded guilty in connection with…
Indochine Counsel Blog
Bribery in Vietnam
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate Looking at my list of potential blog topics, I found the issue of bribery remaining from a time before I began to focus primarily on…