Echoes of the Panalpina case are heard as people are detained and questioned.
With the World Bank investigating, a syndicate of international banks has suspended long-term funding for a massive oil platform servicing Ghana’s offshore field.
Alcatel-Lucent’s early lack of cooperation may have cost it $20 million or more.
A small group of anti-corruption prosecutors and investigators from around the world have been meeting for the past five years. The World Bank convened a similar, albeit much larger, conference last month.
The more than two dozen participants came from around the world and included public and private sector professionals. Just Anti-Corruption identified their titles.
The charges against Alcatel-Lucent stem from millions in bribes paid by third party agents of Alcatel to foreign officials in Asia and Central America starting in the 1990s and continuing into late 2006.
“You have issued some novel rulings” in your career, one defense lawyer said to the judge. “That is what we are looking for here.”
The case’s 22 defendants were charged in 16 sealed indictments filed in December 2009 with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The wide-ranging inquiry into the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas contracts yields another settlement — this time with host country Nigeria.
A diplomatic cable explores how corruption is investigated, or not, in a country where connections are everything.
The German engineering giant Siemens AG is spending millions on anti-corruption efforts.
A new metric shows how the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are making foreign bribery more painful for the companies they nab.
The charges against Ivo Sanader are the latest arising from the Daimler AG F.C.P.A. case.
The legal problems of James Ibori could have international implications.
The giant drug company categorically denies allegations in a leaked diplomatic cable.
BEST FCPA LAWYERS PRACTICE GROUP OF THE YEAR. Main Justice held an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C., to honor top firms in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act arena. This video shows announcement of the finalists and winner in the Practice Group of the Year category.
Mary Jacoby is the founder of Main Justice and Editor-in-Chief of Just Anti-Corruption.
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