Region: United States of America

09 January 2023

06 January 2023

In the latest counsel watch, GIR looks at the white-collar lawyers acting for cryptocurrency company Binance, and those involved in recent cross-border bribery settlements and the US case against crypto company FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

05 January 2023

Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic, who served in former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez’s administration from 2019 until late 2020, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering on 20 October.

05 January 2023

A US district court in Albany, New York, has sentenced a former General Electric engineer to prison for conspiring to steal information about the company’s turbine technology for Chinese state entities.

04 January 2023

The disputed government of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro “exploit[ed] the law of diplomatic immunities” to avoid Saab’s extradition to the United States, a Florida judge wrote.

03 January 2023

The DOJ declined to prosecute aerospace company Safran for bribery; a former risk director for the Ecuadorian police pension fund will spend five years in prison for taking bribes; two current Ericsson executives were accused of approving protection payments to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

03 January 2023

A very Happy New Year from all of us at Global Investigations Review. Catch up on the news you may have missed over the holidays, including an OFAC settlement, a VimpelCom-linked fine imposed on EY in the Netherlands, and another end-of-year leniency agreement in Brazil.

03 January 2023

A Miami court is hearing arguments as to whether it should grant diplomatic immunity to one of the key allies of disputed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

20 December 2022

The DOJ and SEC’s recent focus on ephemeral messaging means companies will have to act swiftly to avoid pitfalls related to their employees’ use of widely available messaging platforms, say Ann Sultan and Andrew Wise, members at Miller & Chevalier.

20 December 2022