The founder of Aratos Group, a Greek-Dutch defence conglomerate, is accused by DOJ prosecutors of working with Russian intelligence agents to smuggle sensitive American technology to Moscow in violation of US export controls.
This is the first time that the department will gather information about all cases related to corporate wrongdoing across the agency in the same place.
The former deputy chief of the national security division official said navigating the US sanctions and export controls regime has become much trickier for the corporate world over the last decade.
The attorney general of Geneva recorded one of the most high-profile white-collar crime convictions of recent times. Now he wants a new settlement tool to meet his prosecutors’ appetite for complex international …
In the latest people news roundup, NASA has hired a former Manhattan federal prosecutor as its new head of legal affairs while investigations consultancies in the US announced various hires.
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The former Criminal Division chief reflected on her career in interviews with GIR after retiring from the partnership at Latham & Watkins in late 2022.
London practitioners have high hopes for Therese Chambers, an FCA veteran who has been with the agency for 20 years, and Steve Smart, the current director of intelligence at the National Crime Agency, who will join in June.
Lawyers in various EU countries say that the European Commission’s new proposals for an anti-corruption directive represent an ambitious proposal that could streamline enforcement across the bloc and improve cross-border cooperation on white-collar crime.
In May, US District Judge Kenneth Hoyt threw out a PDVSA-related foreign bribery case against the Portuguese-Swiss banker for a second time after finding prosecutors violated his right to a speedy trial. The DOJ declined to say whether it will appeal the decision.
“Surely that was inappropriate,” one judge for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said on a closed hearing that occurred with no public notice before the sentencing of Unaoil defendant Saman Ahsani.
The UK subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company received a four-figure fine “that just makes the UK look foolish” according to one expert.
The memo stresses that the US Department of Commerce considers failure to disclose a significant violation of export controls an aggravating factor in the context of a corporate resolution.
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Estonian public prosecutors have charged six former Danske Bank executives with helping the Danish lender’s clients launder over $1.6 billion between 2007 and 2015.
Switzerland’s finance department accused the former compliance executive of delaying reporting Rothschild Trust’s dealings with the Malaysian businessman for more than five years.
The head of the DOJ’s fraud section said in-house lawyers should make the most of their resources when introducing data analytics into their company’s compliance programme, and indicated that more enforcement actions …
Speaking at a GIR Live conference in London on Thursday, Lesley Davey outlined the company’s response to sanctions on Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
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