In June last year, France’s landmark new anti-corruption law, known as Sapin II,[1] came fully into effect. Two major innovations of...
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The Fraud Section within the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) plays a key role in shaping many multi-jurisdictional investigations. On...
On September 21, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Sweden-based telecommunications provider Telia Company AB...
The SFO’s annual report for 2016-17 was published yesterday. Coming only a couple of months after the Conservative party’s controversial...
In a victory for United States federal prosecutors, earlier this week a South Korean government official was found guilty of laundering...
In November 2012, the SEC and DOJ released a joint Resource Guide to the US Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) to much fanfare. While...
Conventional wisdom has it that the US FCPA—unlike, say, the UK Bribery Act—doesn’t cover commercial bribery. See, eg, this, this, this,...