Dorsey & Whitney LLP | South Africa | 22 Jun 2012
South African police are investigating accusations that telecommunications giant MTN bribed officials to acquire a operating license in Iran.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 20 Feb 2012
Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of mobile phone chips, has disclosed that it is under investigation for possible violations of the FCPA.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | India | 20 Feb 2012
India’s Supreme Court has revoked 122 telecommunications licenses awarded across 32 service areas.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 19 Jan 2012
Magyar Telekom, a Hungarian telecommunications company, and its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, a German telecommunications company have agree to pay a combined $63.9 million criminal penalty to settle a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation into activities by Magyar Telekom and its subsidiaries in Macedonia and Montenegro by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | India | 18 Nov 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.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Haiti | 18 Nov 2011
Joel Esquenazi, the former president of Terra Telecommunications, has received a record-breaking prison term of fifteen years—the longest sentence ever handed down in a FCPA prosecution.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | China | 18 Nov 2011
It has been claimed that former chairman and president of China Mobile’s Chongqing branch, Mr Shen Changfu, accepted bribes totalling 36.2 million yuan (US$5.68 million) from major telecom-equipment makers, including Ericsson and Huawei, in return for equipment procurement contracts.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom | 20 Oct 2011
It has been alleged that bribes were accepted by the Saudi royal family from military defence company GPT, a British subsidiary of EADS, in return for securing a £2 billion Saudi Arabian contract to provide communications and cyberwarfare capability.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | China | 27 Sep 2011
A former executive of China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator as measured by the number of subscribers, has been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for accepting bribes, according to reports.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP | USA | 27 Sep 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.