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Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been found guilty of 24 charges ranging from racketeering to bribery. The verdict followed over 70 days of

The new era of FCPA enforcement

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • August 29 2011

It has been over thirty years since the U.S. became the first country to pass anti-corruption legislation known as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • September 17 2012

Canadian-based Nordion, Inc. has indicated to US and Canadian regulators that it may have uncovered possible violations of the FCPA and the corresponding Canadian anti-corruption statute, the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Nordion, based in Ottawa, supplies medical isotopes and had revenue of $274 million in the US in 2011

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • July 19 2012

Montreal based engineering company SNC-Lavalin is accused of offering large bribes to influential Bangladeshi officials to secure a lucrative bridge contract over the Ganges River in India

Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 21 2012

Several U.S. mayors are on trial for, under investigation for, or have just been found guilty of charges related to extortion and bribery. A brief rundown:

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, India
  • -
  • September 27 2011

A legislator has been arrested in relation to his role in an alleged cash-for-vote scam in 2008

£3 million fine for UN sanction breach

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 22 2011

On the 15 December 2010, Weir Group PLC ("Weir"), was fined £3 million after pleading guilty to breaching UN sanctions

Jamaica

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, Jamaica
  • -
  • February 22 2011

The prosecution service in the Hague is due to question politicians in Jamaica about bribes allegedly received from the multinational oil trader, Trafigura

London 2012 Olympic Games

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 20 2011

Historically Olympic boxing competitions have battled repeated allegations of corruption

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • October 20 2011

In a recent annual review of the World Bank’s anti-graft unit’s work, it seems that many countries are failing to follow through with investigations of corrupt conduct referred to them by bank officials

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