Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 27 Sep 2011
After the Bribery Act came into force on 1 July, the first charges under the legislation have been brought.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Bangladesh, Canada | 27 Sep 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.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Austria | 27 Sep 2011
Wolfgang Schüssel, the former chancellor, has resigned from his parliamentary seat and from politics in general in the wake of a corruption scandal.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | France | 27 Sep 2011
The former President, Jacques Chirac, faces charges of embezzlement of public funds in relation to payments made to members of his Rally for the Republic (“RPR”) party for municipal jobs that did not exist.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2011
The SFO has formulated a plan that could make companies police their compliance with the Bribery Act using existing tax laws.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Australia, Papua New Guinea | 27 Sep 2011
Papua New Guinea’s former planning minister, Paul Tiensten, has reportedly fled to Australia after being served with a summons to answer allegations of fraud and corruption before a government taskforce.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA, Vietnam | 27 Sep 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.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Tanzania, United Kingdom | 27 Sep 2011
The BAE £30 million settlement that was agreed with the SFO in relation to a corruption case surrounding an air traffic radar control deal with Tanzania, which was reported in July's Digest, will be paid immediately.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | France | 27 Sep 2011
It has been reported that "a senior figure" from Alstom - the Paris-based company that provides equipment and services for power generation and high speed rail transport - has been in talks with Richard Alderman, the director of the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO").
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Global, India | 27 Sep 2011
A legislator has been arrested in relation to his role in an alleged cash-for-vote scam in 2008.