An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.
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An indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging a former account manager of a Swedish multinational telecommunications company with involvement in a bribery scheme in the Republic of Djibouti and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The DOJ charged two Bolivian citizens and three U.S. citizens for their involvement in a bribery scheme to secure a Bolivian government contract for a Florida-based company.
The CEO of a Brazil-based petrochemical company pleaded guilty to DOJ bribery charges and other violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
An Ecuadorian businessman settled DOJ charges of bribing then-public officials of Ecuadorian state-owned oil company Empresa Pública de Hidrocarburos del Ecuador.