Topic: Whistleblower

A federal appeals court sided with the SEC as it denied a reward to a whistleblower because the agency didn’t use his information in an action of its own. Although the law is clear, the decision has some lawyers questioning the fairness of the outcome.

26 July 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

SEC chairman Gary Gensler said the agency’s enforcement division needs more resources to deal with a surge in reports from whistleblowers and members of the public.

18 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

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

The OECD is “gravely concerned” by the continued lack of investigations into and prosecutions of foreign bribery in Greece.

22 March 2022

22 March 2022

Whistleblowing laws fall down because they don’t incentivise good corporate culture within organisations and put risk and cost on the employee, rather than the employer, say William Fotherby and Emma Barnes at MC in Auckland.

21 March 2022

A major data leak from Credit Suisse has exposed the bank as safe haven for clients involved in corruption, bribery, money laundering and other serious crimes, according to an investigation by media outlets across the globe.

21 February 2022