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Tag Archives: corruption

Anti-Bribery and Corruption

The SFO’s “ongoing” investigation into Alstom – Further Charges

We originally wrote in 2014 about charges that had been brought in September of that year by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office against the French Multinational’s UK subsidiary, Alstom Network UK Ltd, and two former employees and British nationals for corruption offences (under pre-Bribery Act era legislation) relating to transport projects in India, Poland, and Tunisia.… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Fraud, Deception and False Claims

Civil fraud damages claims begin in the UK following a corruption prosecution by the SFO and the DOJ against Innospec and others

In a recent decision of Mr Justice Flaux in the case Jalal Bezee Mejel Al-Gaood & Partner v Innospec Limited and Others, the Claimants sued for damages which they claimed arose as a result of the Defendants having bribed the Iraqi Ministry of Oil (“MOO”) to purchase their chemical products, TEL.  The claim for damages… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims

The Director of the SFO criticises corporations which commission internal investigations before self-reporting

The engagement of external lawyers by corporations is still the safest and best option as those external law firms not only have their own firm's professional brand reputation to protect in giving full honest and fair reports, but the lawyers who form those organisations all owe personal duties to the court not to mislead it. Their report would have been prepared in the knowledge that, if disclosed to the SFO as part of a self-reporting procedure, it could end up being scrutinised by the court.… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Financial Institution Regulation

The Long Arm of British Anti-Corruption Laws and the impact on individual defendants

The inference to be made from this court order is that the crime of corruption really doesn't pay, especially for board level directors, and that individuals who get involved in (or permit existing arrangements to continue unabated) international corruption are at risk of being prosecuted in one or more jurisdictions around the world and are liable to lengthy terms of imprisonment as well as very substantial penalties and orders for disgorgement of payments… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends

Oxford University Press pays substantial civil settlement fine for corrupt overseas contracts and is debarred from World Bank tenders

This appears to be the first civil settlement approved by the new Director of the SFO, David Green QC. It confirms what he has said publicly, that he will agree to civil settlements where appropriate (even though they have been the source of criticism in the past) but the SFO will prosecute when it is the public interest to do so.… Continue Reading
Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Election and Political Law, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends

“No endemic corruption in the police service” – a new report on the British police

It is clear that the police, like employees in commercial organisations all around the world, need to receive much better training and much clearer guidance from their employers as to what is acceptable and what is not in order to avoid the suspicion of corruption… Continue Reading

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