GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL), Brazil’s second largest airline, must pay $41.5 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil resulting from violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. GOL also entered a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice Read More
Medical-device maker Boston Scientific disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it’s currently under investigation concerning alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “In March 2022, the company received a whistleblower letter alleging Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in Vietnam,” Boston Scientific stated in an Aug. 4 quarterly filing. Read More
Chemical company Albemarle disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it has “commenced discussions” with both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning the potential resolution of an investigation that began more than four years ago into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Read More
The 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International shows that corruption levels remain at a standstill worldwide, with 86 percent of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years. Nearly two-thirds of nations scored below 50 on the 100-point scale this year. The largest declines Read More
Tenaris, a Luxembourg-based global maker and supplier of steel pipe products, on Thursday reached a $78 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) related to an alleged bribery scheme involving its Brazilian subsidiary. According to the SEC’s order, the resolution Read More
London-based WPP plc, the world’s largest advertising group, has agreed to settle bribery charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will pay more than $19 million to resolve allegations that it violated the anti-bribery, books and records, and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Read More
Amec Foster Wheeler Limited agreed on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to pay a total of more than $43 million related to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The British-based oil and gas services company, owned by John Wood Group PLC, entered Read More
As a government outsider, it’s impossible to know why there hasn’t yet been any DOJ or SEC corporate enforcement of the FCPA under the current administration. Here are three possible reasons: A time to renegotiate. With every change of administration, there is a changing of the guard. Department heads and Read More
