Topic: Corporate liability

19 May 2022

Two cross-party anti-corruption groups have called for the UK government to reinvest some of the money secured from successful enforcement actions into its anti-corruption agencies.

19 May 2022

A London court has heard audio from a secretly recorded meeting between an executive at defence company GPT and a compliance officer who said the parent company’s business approach was “ethically wrong” but didn’t put a stop to it.

17 May 2022

“I have little doubt that Mr [Neil] Gerrard had a large ego and a belief that he is always right and expected others to follow him implicitly,” the court said in an excoriating judgment concluding that the lawyer repeatedly leaked ENRC’s confidential information to the SFO.

16 May 2022

10 May 2022

GIR subscribers can now view the entire GIR Live: Washington, DC conference, online. The event, held at Paul Hastings on 7 April, was co-chaired by Nicolas Bourtin of Sullivan & Cromwell and Amy Jeffress of Arnold & Porter.

06 May 2022

Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating “unknown persons” for the war crime of pillaging after receiving a complaint from an NGO.

20 April 2022

In a first for the UK’s Met Police, a London court also sentenced three companies for failing to prevent bribery.

14 April 2022

The former top US lawyer at Fresenius claims he was dismissed last month for reporting concerns about bribery, corruption and embezzlement at the German medical company.

13 April 2022

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Dubai’s financial services regulator has introduced new rules to encourage individuals to blow the whistle about corporate misconduct.

11 April 2022