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OCCRP on massive fake sneaker ring taken down in Spain, arresting 7 individuals
Spanish police have dismantled an organised crime syndicate, arresting 7 individuals dedicated to the distribution of counterfeit sneakers in Spain. Those arrested were accused of crimes against intellectual property occurring when someone sells and/or distributes counterfeit goods protected by copyright or brand name, such as sneakers and smuggling…
Malaysian politician under Pandora Papers probe linked to $52 million offshore trust and UK, US property investment
Family members of Malaysia’s embattled former finance minister Daim Zainuddin are beneficiaries of a multimillion-dollar trust with investments in U.K. and U.S. real estate, documents obtained by the ICIJ reveal. The new findings come amid an ongoing investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in response to Pandora Papers revelations linking Daim and others in his inner circle to offshore entities worth at least $31 million…
President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), criminalising demand-side bribery by foreign officials
FEPA makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand bribes from U.S. citizens, companies, or anyone in the U.S. to gain or keep business. Before FEPA, existing laws like the FCPA focused on punishing bribes offered to foreign officials, not demands made by them. The new law fills this gap, aiming to prevent corruption by foreign officials seeking bribes from individuals…
Basel Institute of Governance publishes good practices for facilitators of anti-corruption collective action
The report comprehensively covers the role of the facilitator in Collective Action initiatives, the diverse roles that representatives from the private sector, public sector, civil society, and academia play, the detailed process of establishing a Collective Action initiative and securing necessary funding for it, and effective ways to monitor progress and evaluate impact…
President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), criminalising demand-side bribery by foreign officials
President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), criminalising the demand-side bribery by foreign officials. This includes the demand or acceptance of a bribe from a U.S. citizen, company, or issuer, or anyone located within the territory of the U.S., when made to obtain or retain business…
GRECO publishes third Interim compliance report, following the fourth evaluation round on Portugal
Concludes that Portugal has made limited progress in connection with the fulfilment of recommendations found to be not implemented or partly implemented; only three of the fifteen recommendations have beenimplemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner.
US DoJ organises first U.S. trial as part of a wide-ranging probe addressing international bribery in South America
A former employee of Vitol, the world’s largest oil trader, will stand trial in Brooklyn, New York, for allegedly bribing Ecuadorian officials $1 million to win a $300 million oil sale contract…
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast focusing on different dimensions to the EU’s fight against corruption
The conversation also explores the challenges of building institutional resilience to corruption within potential accession countries as well as EU member states themselves–most notably the question of how the EU should be responding to autocratic regimes like Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary…
US DoJ convicts former Puerto Rico Legislator and husband for theft, bribery, and kickback scheme
They were convicted for orchestrating a theft, bribery, and kickback scheme, inflating an assistant’s salary in exchange for a portion of the funds. The jury found them guilty of conspiracy, federal funds theft, bribery, and kickbacks, honest services wire fraud, money laundering…
SEC divides $28 million award between seven whistleblowers
The whistleblowers provided valuable information and substantial assistance that played a critical role in the SEC returning millions of dollars to harmed investors. The seven whistleblowers were composed of a single claimant and two sets of joint claimants…
SEC charges global software company SAP $100 million for FCPA violations
The SEC’s order finds that SAP, whose American Depositary Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, violated the FCPA by employing third-party intermediaries and consultants from at least December 2014 through January 2022 to pay bribes to government officials to obtain business with public sector customers in the seven countries mentioned above. According to the SEC’s order, SAP inaccurately recorded the bribes as legitimate business expenses in its books and records, despite the fact that certain of the third-party intermediaries could not show that they provided the services for which they had been contracted. The SEC’s order finds that SAP failed to implement sufficient internal accounting controls over the third parties and lacked sufficient entity-level controls over its wholly owned subsidiaries…
Nigerian president suspends humanitarian minister in corruption scandal
Nigeria’s president suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation with immediate effect over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial transactions in the government’s social welfare program…