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By Jeffrey Benzing | January 11th, 2013

Macau has fewer than 250 licensed lawyers authorized to review personal data, said the casino company, which retained Mayer Brown LLP and FTI Consulting.

By David Stout | January 9th, 2013

A robust compliance program can keep a company out of big trouble.

By Jeffrey Benzing | December 20th, 2012

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said he wouldn’t approve a settlement until it included language requiring IBM to report all future FCPA violations to the court or justify why it was seeking exceptions.

By Main Justice staff | December 19th, 2012
By Main Justice staff | December 18th, 2012

THE bribery case over banknote deals brokered by a Vietnamese spy colonel has been dismissed.

There was insufficient evidence to commit the case to trial, Magistrate Phillip Goldberg told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, dismissing some of the first charges to be laid under anti-foreign bribery laws introduced in Australia in 1999.

Commonwealth prosecutors can still choose to present directly the charges to the Supreme or County courts and Mr Goldberg has yet to consider the charges relating to deals in Malaysia and Indonesia.

By Douglas Gillison | November 28th, 2012

The Canadian engineering giant is engulfed in corruption allegations.

By Douglas Gillison | November 19th, 2012

The case against Juthamas Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, and her daughter, tests the ability of U.S. prosecutors to pursue the foreign recipients of bribes, who are not covered by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

By Douglas Gillison | November 15th, 2012

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sees a jump in legal costs and acknowledges it is investigating possible foreign bribery in at least three new countries.

By Douglas Gillison | November 2nd, 2012

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By Reuters | November 2nd, 2012

Canadian construction and engineering company SNC Lavalin Group Inc, under police investigation over alleged bribery, reported an 8 percent fall in third-quarter profit due to weak performances in its infrastructure and environment businesses.
SNC, which appointed a new chief executive on Oct. 1, said net income attributable to shareholders fell to C$114.9 million ($115.21 million), or [...]

By Douglas Gillison | November 1st, 2012

Others may follow after senior management were axed in connection with a bribery probe, according to the cosmetics company.

By Douglas Gillison | October 31st, 2012

OECD experts found that the suspicious behavior of Australian mining companies was repeatedly ignored by authorities in Canberra.

By Douglas Gillison | October 27th, 2012

The reimbursement to the company from its unnamed directors and officers liability insurance carrier was first disclosed in 2010.

By Douglas Gillison | October 23rd, 2012

As part of efforts to resume funding for a corruption-plagued, $3 billion bridge project in Bangladesh, three prominent anti-corruption jurists concluded a visit to the country where they are assessing an investigation by local authorities.

By Reuters | October 22nd, 2012

Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada lodged an appeal on Friday, seeking to overturn a ruling which allowed the forced sale of his 20 percent stake in Wynn Resorts Ltd. as a result of bribery allegations against Okada.




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