Topic: Commercial bribery

The former Criminal Division chief reflected on her career in interviews with GIR after retiring from the partnership at Latham & Watkins in late 2022.

23 May 2023

A Canadian court has approved a settlement with a subsidiary of UK defence contractor Ultra Electronics to resolve charges that it bribed public officials in the Philippines.

18 May 2023

Alejandro Burzaco, who his lawyer called “the superman of cooperators”, will not pay a fine for his role in a scheme to bribe soccer officials for lucrative broadcasting rights.

12 May 2023

The resolution comes two years after SICPA paid over $151 million to settle allegations that the company bribed public officials in Brazil.

27 April 2023

The former general counsel of Venezuela’s state oil company admitted to accepting some $11.5 million in bribes; FinCEN is looking for a new director; and two banks successfully dismissed a Helms-Burton suit for a second time.

04 April 2023

The DOJ said it plans to work with Nigeria to use the funds for the benefit of the country’s citizens.

29 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

Earning cooperation credit in white-collar crime investigations isn’t a matter of checking a number of boxes, the head of the FCPA unit said.

10 March 2023

A jury found one of two ex-Fox executives and a Uruguayan sports company guilty of bribing football officials for lucrative broadcasting contracts.

09 March 2023

A short-seller accuses US lithium manufacturer Piedmont Lithium of performing lacklustre due diligence and leaving itself open to FCPA scrutiny when it invested in a UK mining company.

09 March 2023