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By Mary Jacoby | November 30, 2015

Standard Bank was found to have failed to implement adequate procedures to prevent bribery in Tanzania - first section 7 Bribery Act prosecution. Parallel SEC order had a $4.2 million civil penalty.

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By Just Anti-Corruption Staff | December 11, 2015 2:17 pm

UPDATED: Friday, December 11th

  • Petrobras invokes Morrison to dismiss shareholder complaint

  • Report: Ng Lap Seng seeks speedy trial in U.N. bribery case

  • Shareholders launch lawsuit against Vimpelcom

  • DAP executive Tomas Clarke sentenced

  • Judge rejects Rodriguez’s bid for new FCPA trial

  • Direct Access Partner executive sentenced to two years

  • Report: FBI investigating FIFA president Sepp Blatter

  • World Bank investigators are a ‘nasty surprise’ for companies

  • U.S. and China need data sharing agreement, say lawyers

  • Plaintiffs see plot in Wal-Mart’s switch from ‘one renowned law firm to another’

    • 30 foreign companies probed in Brazilian Petrobras scandal

    By Dylan Tokar | November 25, 2015 12:21 pm

    A total of 285 foreign companies did business with Petrobras, and prosecutors are investigating 30 of them, a spokesperson for the Curitiba Prosecutor’s Office in Brazil told GIR on Tuesday Nov. 24.

    GIR Awards 2015 – the winners

    By Rahul Rose | September 25, 2015 10:21 am

    Lawyers and prosecutors from around the world gathered in New York’s Conrad Hotel on 24 September with journalists from Global Investigations Review and GIR Just-Anti-Corruption to celebrate the great and good of the international investigations bar.

    GIR Live New York: Yates memo harmonizes approach to prosecutions, Caldwell says

    By Marisa Iati | September 22, 2015 1:51 pm

    The Justice Department’s Criminal Division chief discussed the Yates memo on prosecuting individuals in corporate investigations. She spoke at the Global Investigations Review conference in New York today.

  • Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell’s prepared remarks at GIR Live New York

  • GIR Live New York: Lack of transparency in China creates investigation challenges, lawyers say

  • GIR Live New York: Simultaneously confronting challenges in the US and abroad

    • FCPA Prosecuting Experience, Once a Stop in a Public Service Career, Is Now Springboard to the Private Sector

    By Marisa Iati and Mary Jacoby | March 19, 2015 5:40 pm

    Criminal Division Fraud Section organizational charts analyzed by Just Anti-Corruption from 2005 to the present show starkly divergent career paths for former FCPA unit prosecutors before and after Mark Mendelsohn jumped to Paul Weiss in 2010. While not a surprise, what’s striking is how completely the numbers have flipped.

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    The sanctions expert left Miller & Chevalier in May.

    By Mary Jacoby

    Haiti Teleco official appeals to Supreme Court

    Rene Duperval has accused the government of failing to provide sufficient evidence that Telecommunications D’Haiti SAM was a state-controlled enterprise. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied Duperval’s appeal.

    By Dylan Tokar

    Patrick Stokes Talks FCPA Enforcment at ABA White Collar Crime Conference in New Orleans

    Stokes, a Deputy Chief inside the Justice Department Criminal Division Fraud Section, gave his insights into Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement and revealed more details of the FBI’s new anti-corruption squad.

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