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RubinChambers, Dunhill Insurance Services (aka CDR Financial Products)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2012

At the end of last month, the DOJ announced that CDR, a financial products and services firm based in Beverly Hills, California, and its founder and owner, David Rubin, pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York to participating in multimillion-dollar bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies related to contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other related municipal finance contracts

Allianz SE

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Germany, Indonesia, USA
  • -
  • October 20 2011

Allianz SE, Europe’s largest insurer, is reportedly close to reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that it paid bribes in Indonesia in order to win insurance business

Biomet Inc.

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2012

Medical device company Biomet has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as well as parallel criminal charges by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ

Former CEO and executives of Nobel Corp

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed civil charges against Mark Jackson, former CEO of Swiss oil services company Nobel Corp., and two other executives for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) from 2003 through 2007

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • India, USA
  • -
  • February 20 2012

A Canadian media report has alleged that in 2007, minister for heavy industry, Mr Praful Patel, accepted $250,000 from an Indian-born Canadian citizen, Mr Nazir Karigar, during his tenure as civil aviation minister, to try and secure a $100 million contract for a facial-recognition system for Air India

Layne Christensen Company

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 24 2011

Layne Christensen is another company facing an investigation by a law firm that represents shareholders in class actions against publicly traded companies

Armor Holdings, Inc.

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2011

Armor Holdings, Inc. (“Armor”), the maker of military trucks, has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve claims that it bribed a United Nations official to win contracts connected to peacekeeping missions

Latin Node Inc. executive

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • 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

Businessman charged with corruption by SFO

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA, Vietnam
  • -
  • September 27 2011

Bill Lowther, a British businessman and former deputy chairman of Securency, is being investigated by the SFO in the UK for allegedly conspiring to corruptly pay for the son of the then governor of Vietnam’s state-owned bank to be educated at Durham University in order to secure a lucrative contract

Aluminium bribes

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2011

The UK Serious Fraud Office has charged a BritishCanadian billionaire, Mr Victor Dahdaleh, for allegedly bribing officials at Bahrain-based aluminium smelting company, Alba