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Telecom executive sentenced to 4 years in prison for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Honduras, USA
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  • September 13 2011

Last Wednesday, a United States District Court judge in the Southern District of Florida sentenced the former CEO of Latin Node, a now-defunct Florida-based telecommunication company, to 46 months in prison for paying bribes to Honduran government officials

Motion to dismiss raising matter of first impression in FCPA context denied in SDNY

  • LeClairRyan
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 14 2013

Three foreign national defendants who are former executives of Magyar Telekom -- the Hungarian telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG -

Haitian foreign official Jean Rene Duperval sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in FCPA scheme

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • Haiti, USA
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  • May 22 2012

On Monday, May 21, 2012, Florida Federal Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Jean Rene Duperval, the former director of international relations for Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. ("Haiti Teleco"), the Haitian state-owned telecommunications company, to nine years in prison for his role in a scheme to launder bribes paid to him by two Miami-based telecommunications companies

DOJ’s recent trend of prosecuting individuals for FCPA violations continues with longer prison sentences and increased fines

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

The longest prison term ever imposed in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) case -- fifteen years -- was recently given to Joel Esquenazi, former president of Terra Telecommunications Corporation, after a jury convicted him under the FCPA for bribes paid to officials at Haiti Teleco, a state-owned telecommunications agency

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

Middle east update - July 2012

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
  • -
  • July 17 2012

This Update is produced on a monthly basis

Corruption digest

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

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation have charged former Indian Communications and Information Technology Minister Mr Dayanidhi Maran with criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery

Review of 2009 and preview of 2010

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 15 2010

The transition from 2009 to 2010 sees some significant legislative chapters closing, notably the Companies Act 2006, Rome I and II, the Banking Act 2009 and the Lisbon Treaty

Patrick Joseph, Haiti Teleco defendant, sentenced to prison

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Haiti, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

On July 6, 2012, Patrick Joseph was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and ordered to forfeit $955,596.69, for his role in the Haiti Teleco bribery scheme

Court upholds damage award in Motorola-Telsim case

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2007

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision, reached by a Manhattan federal judge last year, that allows Motorola to collect $1 billion in punitive damages from the former owners of Turkish wireless carrier Telsim, who were alleged to have defrauded Motorola out of $1.5 billion in infrastructure loans that were not repaid

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