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The UK’s financial regulator also revealed plans to streamline its legal function and shift the responsibility for international matters away from the enforcement division.

23 March 2023

The former director of the SFO told GIR that the UK’s prosecution agencies require new leaders who have a clear mission and the courage to take on difficult cases.

22 March 2023

The Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office has searched the premises of German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz as part of a bribery investigation.

22 March 2023

The company’s plea agreement eliminates the cooperation credit it had been awarded by the DOJ in 2019 for cooperating with an FCPA investigation.

21 March 2023

French lawyers are up in arms about recent guidance on conflicts of interest and attorney-client privilege in internal investigations, with one lawyer calling the view on privileged materials “a shocking breach of the rule of law in a western democracy”.

21 March 2023

GIR looks at a new corporate settlement mechanism in Brazil that provides an alternative avenue for companies in instances where they cannot qualify for a leniency agreement.

21 March 2023

The UK’s civil sanctions enforcement agency has detailed, for the first time, the due diligence steps that companies can take to reduce potential fines for breaching sanctions.

20 March 2023

The Justice Department announced the newly created position as part of a broader surge of resources toward national security enforcement.

20 March 2023

Saman Ahsani, a key player in the Unaoil bribery scheme, was recently sentenced to a relatively short prison term of just one year and one day, raising questions about the nature of his cooperation with DOJ prosecutors.

17 March 2023

PayPal has entered into an “enforceable undertaking” with Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator to resolve an investigation into the payment company’s compliance with international transfer reporting rules.

17 March 2023