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Bangladesh, Canada - September 27 2011
SNC-Lavalin, the engineering company, had its offices outside of Toronto raided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) in connection with a corruption probe into the World Bank-funded Padma Bridge Project in Bangladesh.
USA - September 27 2011
The Justice Department has announced that Jorge Granados, a former chief executive officer of Florida-based telecommunications company Latin Node Inc. (LatiNode) has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for paying bribes to former government officials in Honduras.
Austria - September 27 2011
Wolfgang Schüssel, the former chancellor, has resigned from his parliamentary seat and from politics in general in the wake of a corruption scandal.
USA - September 27 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged one of the world’s largest producers of premium alcoholic beverages with widespread violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) stemming from more than six years of improper payments to government officials in India, Thailand, and South Korea.
