Topic: Deferred prosecution agreement

The head of the Fraud Section’s corporate enforcement, compliance, & policy unit also said companies should “embrace” independent monitorships to avoid potential extensions.

24 March 2023

The company’s plea agreement eliminates the cooperation credit it had been awarded by the DOJ in 2019 for cooperating with an FCPA investigation.

21 March 2023

A London court entered not-guilty verdicts for Richard Morris, Mark Preston and James Jardine after the Serious Fraud Office offered no evidence against them following a nine-year investigation.

10 March 2023

For the first time in 16 attempts, the Serious Fraud Office secured the conviction of an individual in a case where a company entered into a deferred prosecution agreement over related misconduct.

03 March 2023

24 February 2023

03 February 2023

The first Unaoil brother to be sentenced called himself “exhibit A” for the benefits of government collaboration during a hearing in a Houston federal court.

30 January 2023

Lawyers said France’s latest corporate settlement guidelines reassure companies about the benefits of self-reporting misconduct to prosecutors.

19 January 2023

The GIR editorial team is taking a break from regular news briefings over the next couple of weeks. We will be back on 3 January. In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of some of our favourite and most-read stories. Happy holidays!

18 December 2022

Speaking at a GIR conference on Thursday, Chloe Wootton hailed the agency’s triumphs in prosecuting companies for breaches of section 7 of the Bribery Act while making a case for a failure to prevent fraud offence.

05 December 2022