Bid rigging - Global Investigations Review

Press asks court to expedite appeal in unsealing of Unaoil exec’s sentencing docs

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

South Africa to establish anti-corruption, anti-graft agencies

24 October 2022

Ecuador raids Chinese company in presidential bribery probe

Ecuadorian police have searched the offices of Chinese engineering company Sinohydro as part of a bribery investigation targetting former president Lenín Moreno.

08 September 2022

Ecuador fines Odebrecht $57 million for corrupt agreement with state power company

22 June 2022

Brazil scales down corruption task forces after Car Wash criticism

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Brazillian prosecutors are moving away from large-scale corruption investigations to smaller and more focused task forces, a Brazilian lawyer told audience members at GIR Live: Women in Investigations on Thursday.

16 June 2022

Brazilian authorities investigate potential bid rigging in Minas Gerais

12 August 2021

Italian prosecutor in favour of extraditing former PDVSA president to Venezuela

15 July 2021

Czech penalties for compliance failures “almost laughable”

Companies in the Czech Republic face ineffective deterrents and virtually no incentives to comply with local anti-corruption laws, a lawyer has said.

22 June 2021

Brazilian authorities investigating Freepoint in Petrobras-linked bribery case

02 June 2021

The Netherlands targets PwC in SHV corruption case

Dutch prosecutors are investigating PwC and executives in connection with a vast alleged bribery scheme orchestrated by subsidiaries of Dutch trading firm SHV Holdings.

29 April 2021

Topic: Bid rigging