Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 21 Aug 2012
Medical device manufacturer Orthofix has entered into a settlement with the DOJ and the SEC to resolve FCPA claims stemming from activities in Mexico.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 19 Jul 2012
Orthofix International N.V. became the third medical device company to settle with FCPA enforcement officials this year.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Russia | 19 Jul 2012
Former head of the Defense Ministry’s main medical department, Major General Alexander Belevitin, and his deputy Colonel Alexei Nikitin have been accused of accepting a bribe when purchasing tomographs.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | India, USA | 22 Jun 2012
US pharmaceutical companies with operations in India may face investigation by the US government.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | United Kingdom | 17 May 2012
A care home inspector has been arrested by the City of London Police on suspicion of bribery and money laundering following allegations by whistleblowers that she sought bribes from care home managers to provide favourable inspection reports.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 16 Apr 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).
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 20 Feb 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has reached a settlement with London-based medical device company Smith & Nephew PLC to resolve charges that the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its U.S. and German subsidiaries bribed public doctors in Greece for over a decade in order to win business.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Serbia | 22 Dec 2011
AstraZeneca has been indicted for alleged bribery.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 18 Nov 2011
SciClone and certain of its directors and officers have agreed to settle the consolidated derivative lawsuits that were filed following the company’s announcement that it was being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for possible FCPA violations.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Netherlands, Poland | 27 Jul 2011
An internal investigation has cleared Royal Philips Electronics NV’s headquarters in the Netherlands of involvement in an alleged bribery scheme in Poland, it has been reported.