Brazil National Congress urged to pass anti-corruption reforms

Brazilian lawyers hope that anti-corruption reform proposals supported by the country’s incoming justice minister will be approved by Congress three years after similar measures floated by prosecutors were blocked.

Prosecutors continue talks in Unaoil-linked probe

Scottish energy company Wood Group says that the SFO and Scottish prosecutors have taken over 14 months to decide which authority will lead a bribery investigation into Amec Foster Wheeler.

German authorities have growing appetite for enforcement

Norton Rose Fulbright’s new dispute resolution partner in Frankfurt said that banks moving from the UK post-Brexit will have to deal with an increasingly aggressive enforcement atmosphere.

Corruption Watch UK questions integrity of FATF report

The policy director at Corruption Watch UK has accused the Financial Action Task Force of being “too reliant on the UK government” in its recent review of the country’s anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing system.
Deutsche Bank’s close relationship with US prosecutors under spotlight in Libor case

Fighting a conviction for rigging the Libor benchmark rate, a former Deutsche Bank trader has alleged that the bank’s lawyers handed prosecutors testimony that violated his right against self-incrimination.
Former Leighton Holdings CFO convicted

There are uncharged, culpable individuals in Embraer case, US prosecutor concedes

During the sentencing of a former Embraer sales executive, a Manhattan federal court heard how some of the defendant’s colleagues and co-conspirators declined to cooperate with a US foreign bribery investigation.

Colombian company cooperating with DOJ probe

Grupo Aval, a major Colombian financial group, has said it is cooperating with the US Department of Justice as part of an investigation into corruption on a highway construction project.

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Comment & analysis

The rise of anti-corruption whistleblowers in Latin America

Gary Giampetruzzi and Jonathan Stevens at Paul Hastings examine how whistleblowers in Latin America have become an increasingly important part of anti-corruption enforcement.

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Community

German authorities have growing appetite for enforcement

Norton Rose Fulbright’s new dispute resolution partner in Frankfurt said that banks moving from the UK post-Brexit will have to deal with an increasingly aggressive enforcement atmosphere.

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Société Générale remedied self-report failure in $1.34 billion sanctions probe with “voluminous evidence”

Société Générale executives and global compliance managers were aware that the bank was conducting transactions in Cuba that violated US sanctions for a decade before Société Générale self-reported to US authorities.

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Interviews

John Gibson: “We may be obliged to challenge overly ambitious privilege claims”

SFO case controller John Gibson, who led the authority’s high-profile privilege challenge against mining company ENRC, speaks to GIR about whether the...

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