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Analysing the law and practice of international investigations into corporate misconduct & related enforcement.
London and Washington, DC
Joined November 2009
But the agency secured the conviction of one of the businessmen on a separate charge of receiving secret commissions on defence contracts while serving as an official at the Ministry of Defence
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A more than decade-long corruption investigation by the Serious Fraud Office has ended in the acquittals of two UK businessmen who were accused of pulling the levers of a complex bribery scheme in Saudi Arabia https://t.co/LlmYuRkSNe by @johnson_alice
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At the finale of a more than decade-long SFO corruption case, jurors convicted an ex-MOD official of receiving £70,000 in secret commissions on defence contracts, while acquitting the defendant and...
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Petrofac ex-COO charged with bribery https://t.co/UT9MIdIE7q By @SamllFry
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Petrofac’s former chief operating officer and a former executive at the oil services company have been charged with allegedly offering or paying bribes in connection with contracts in the Middle East.
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In an interview with GIR, PNF prosecutor Jérôme Simon said he is keen to shake off the dusty image of traditional financial crime investigations in France, and instead show what a group of young and pragmatic professionals can accomplish.
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Senior prosecutor Jérôme Simon, who helped draft the very law that introduced France’s financial crime agency, provided GIR with an exclusive look into its inner workings.
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There's a new OFAC on the block - and it has nothing to do with US sanctions. Meet France's new cybercrime investigator: https://t.co/SGXbTtGBQh By @johnson_alice
globalinvestigationsreview.com
Lawyers in France said that the specialised police unit should make reporting and investigating cybercrimes more efficient but added that its success hinges on whether it is sufficiently resourced.
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The Geneva AG recorded one of the most high-profile white-collar crime convictions of recent times. GIR's @SamllFry visited Olivier Jornot to discuss his office's processes and priorities, and criticisms of a controversial corporate settlement tool.
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The attorney general of Geneva recorded one of the most high-profile white-collar crime convictions of recent times. Now he wants a new settlement tool to meet his prosecutors’ appetite for complex...
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Ecuador’s top prosecutor has accused a Chinese engineering company of paying “tens of millions of dollars in bribes” to Ecuadorean public officials including a former president. https://t.co/Uhftw6Y6pb By @adl_gir
globalinvestigationsreview.com
Ecuador’s top prosecutor has accused a Chinese engineering company of paying “tens of millions of dollars in bribes” to Ecuadorean public officials including a former president.
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The UK’s data commissioner has rebuffed @GIRalerts efforts to obtain correspondence that helped an independent reviewer conclude there had been a historic “culture of distrust” at the Serious Fraud Office. https://t.co/Ub4itHorZH By @SamllFry
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GIR can reveal the practitioners who were chosen to monitor Glencore following its foreign bribery and market manipulation plea agreements in the US. https://t.co/CLpmksuQs2 by @breijer @MaxwellAFillion and @SamllFry
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Two US nationals, supported by two Swiss lawyers, will oversee the commodities trader’s compliance obligations stemming from its 2022 foreign bribery and market manipulation plea agreements in the US.
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One of the brothers behind Unaoil, the energy consultancy at the centre of global bribery investigations, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison as well as a year of probation. By @annabiancaroach in Houston
globalinvestigationsreview.com
The first Unaoil brother to be sentenced called himself “exhibit A” for the benefits of government collaboration during a hearing in a Houston federal court.
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GIR, the FT and the Guardian, represented by @rcfp, have asked a US court to unseal a pair of sentencing memos in the case against Saman Ahsani for his role in the Unaoil bribery scandal.
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a motion on Tuesday, 24 January on behalf of GIR, The Financial Times and the Guardian to unseal a pair of sentencing memos in the case against...
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Parchment, shillings and the Julian calendar: @adl_gir speaks with the investigators who looked into the Church of England’s historic links to transatlantic slavery.
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Grant Thornton director Tristan Yelland recently sat down with GIR to recount the most interesting assignment of his career so far: investigating historic links between transatlantic slavery and the...
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Ireland's Department of Justice has said it is experiencing “legal difficulties” in responding to evidence-gathering requests from @EUProsecutor in response to claims that the country has systematically hindered the EU office's mission.
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The Irish government denied impeding any investigations after the European Public Prosecutor’s Office claimed the country has “systematically hindered” the prosecuting body’s efforts to protect the...
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OFAC is reviewing - and seeking public comment on - its enforcement guidelines to ensure they stay relevant and can be applied to new technologies, an official with the office said last week.
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The associate director of compliance and enforcement at the US Treasury Department’s office of foreign assets control said that his office is seeking public input on potential changes to enforcement...
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The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank claimed US prosecutors have given a “fundamentally false and misleading account” of their case against him in an effort to secure his extradition from the UK.
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The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank claimed US prosecutors have given a “fundamentally false and misleading account” of their case against him in an effort to secure his extradition from the...
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A Manhattan judge delayed the FCPA sentencing of Glencore after prosecutors asked for more time to work with Swiss counterparts to gain permission to impose a compliance monitorship on the company.
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Prosecutors said they would like more time to work with Swiss authorities to resolve “issues” related to the imposition of a compliance monitorship on Glencore.
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The US's long-running foreign bribery prosecution of Lawrence Hoskins has ended after the Justice Department declined to seek another review of the former Alstom executive’s FCPA acquittal.
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The near decade-long case against former Alstom executive Lawrence Hoskins has left an indelible mark on US foreign bribery enforcement.
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Swedish prosecutors have closed an investigation into suspected bribery in China by Stockholm-based telecoms company Ericsson without filing any charges.
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Brazilian prosecutors have stopped cooperating with their Peruvian counterparts on a high-profile corruption case over concerns about Peru’s use of evidence against a Brazilian construction company. By @adl_gir
https://t.co/7R7K3me6hn
globalinvestigationsreview.com
Brazilian prosecutors have stopped cooperating with their Peruvian counterparts on a high-profile corruption case over concerns about Peru’s use of evidence against a Brazilian construction company.
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When the US State Department asked the public for information on a Singaporean national accused of evading sanctions on North Korea, the Singapore Police Force responded with good news: they know where he is and they have his passport. By @MaxwellAFillion
globalinvestigationsreview.com
When the US State Department asked the public for information on Kwek Kee Seng, a Singaporean national accused of evading sanctions to provide oil to North Korea, the Singapore Police Force responded...
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