The settlement includes a long-term sales agreement with the plaintiff in the civil suit, Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C.
Tunisia’s interim president says his country has no access to assets already frozen in the West.
The military and aerospace giant could be the main actor in a scandal embarrassing to many.
The Justice Department has closed its foreign bribery inquiry of the armed security provider formerly known as Blackwater, according to a July 19 letter to the company from prosecutors.
The SEC and Justice Department have both closed foreign bribery investigations into Hercules Offshore Inc.
The Israel-based generic drug maker said it is also investigating FCPA matters internally.
Settlement talks are accelerating between Total SA and U.S. authorities over foreign bribery allegations in Iran, the company said in a Wednesday regulatory filing.
Halliburton said the investigation of payments to third-party agents is different from the other investigations in Angola and Iraq.
The Pittsburgh-based aluminum producer said any settlement of the government’s long-running foreign bribery probes could involve monetary amounts “material in a particular period” to Alcoa’s operating results.
After Aluminum Bahrain, B.S.C. sued Alcoa in 2008 for allegedly violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the Justice Department and U.K Serious Fraud Office launched their own investigations.
The South Africa-based telecommunications company says U.S. courts do not have jurisdiction to warrant the suit.
A federal judge in Texas today dismissed a Dodd-Frank whistleblower claim against G.E. Energy on grounds that the law’s anti-retaliation provision does not apply overseas.
A high official in a long-suffering country battles poverty, in his own way.
Prosecutors no longer object to discovery in a related civil lawsuit.
The defendant was set to face trial June 26 and will be sentenced in November for an FCPA violation.
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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