Dorsey & Whitney LLP | South Korea | 17 May 2012
Seoul Education Chief, Mr Kwak Nohyun, has been sentenced by an appeals court to one year imprisonment for bribing his election rival, Mr Park Myong-gee.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | United Kingdom | 17 May 2012
BP’s global chartering manager, Mr Lars Dencker Nielsen, allegedly accepted cash payments in return for giving multi-million pound contracts to a shipping magnate.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | India | 17 May 2012
A Indian Court has sentenced prominent Hindu nationalist leader, Mr Bangaru Laxman, to four years' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs1 lakh for corruption.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | United Kingdom | 17 May 2012
Further to articles contained in the November 2011, January 2012, February 2012 and March 2012 editions of the Corruption Digest, Royal Editor of The Sun newspaper, Mr Duncan Larcombe, has been arrested for allegedly bribing police and other officials in return for stories.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 17 May 2012
Nottingham businessman, Mr Frank Milford, allegedly accepted nearly £50,000 in bribes in return for securing council and government work for a company.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Tunisia | 17 May 2012
The general director of Enco Group, Mr Wajdi Chortani, has alleged that he was shut out of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.’s largest Tunisian construction project as he refused to pay a bribe to Quebec company’s top North African executives.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Mexico, USA | 17 May 2012
Wal-Mart disclosed in a December 2011 10-K filing that it is investigating potential violations of the FCPA in Mexico by its largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Ukraine | 17 May 2012
Former head of the State Employment Service, Mr Volodymyr Halytsky, is being investigated for accepting bribes.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Russia | 17 May 2012
Former CEO of a municipal utilities company, Mr Sergei Fedosov, has been handed a five-year suspended sentence and fined 500,000 rubles for accepting bribes.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | China | 17 May 2012
Further to the January edition of the Corruption Digest, the ex-chief of the Chinese Football Association, Mr Xie Yalong, stood trial in a Dandong court for allegedly accepting bribes totaling US$273,000.