Region: Monaco

Two companies indirectly owned by the wealth management arm of French lender Crédit Agricole have been fined for processing more than $4 million of payments for clients in five sanctioned countries.

27 September 2022

Another former Iraq territory manager at the controversial Monaco consultancy wants his conviction thrown out over the SFO’s failure to disclose its contact with a non-legal “fixer”.

07 June 2022

The Attorney General’s Office has commissioned an independent review of failings at the SFO after a UK appeals court threw out the foreign bribery conviction of a former Unaoil executive.

10 December 2021

Lawyers in London and Brasília have helped Rolls-Royce resolve the final Brazilian strand of a long-running corruption case and Morrison & Foerster has steered a Chinese electronics company to a settlement over claims it sold millions of defective dehumidifiers.

04 November 2021

Former SBM Offshore lawyer Jonathan Taylor voluntarily travelled to Monaco on Monday to speak with a public prosecutor, months after he successfully avoided extradition to the principality.

13 October 2021

Jonathan Taylor hopes that his questioning by a Monaco judge as part of a corruption investigation will bring years of pursuit by the principality’s authorities to an end.

21 September 2021

A former lawyer at SBM Offshore who helped expose widespread bribery by the Dutch oil company says he will return home to the UK from Croatia, after winning an extradition battle.

08 July 2021

The former SBM Offshore lawyer intends to ask Croatia’s justice minister to block the decision in an extradition battle that has been running for almost a year.

18 May 2021

Jonathan Taylor says he doesn’t regret his role in exposing alleged worldwide bribery by the Netherlands-based oil services company despite it leading to his almost year-long detention in Croatia.

07 May 2021

“Where I was looking for help, I got one of the worst twelve-hour experiences of my life,” Jonathan Taylor said.

21 April 2021