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US DoJ announces ringleader and company insider admit to defrauding biochemical company and transferring products to China through falsified export documents
The US DoJ has declined to prosecute MilliporeSigma, citing factors in the Department’s Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations and the National Security Division Enforcement Policy for Business Organizations. The policy assumes companies self-disclose potential violations, cooperate, and remediate promptly, unless aggravating factors exist…
INTERPOL identifies anti-corruption action with the potential misuse of systems in Moldova
UK authorities have reported a cybercrime investigation involving corrupt Moldovan individuals suspected of passing information about Red Notices to wanted persons with INTERPOL actively cooperating with relevant jurisdictions. INTERPOL has implemented additional measures to ensure the suspected misuse is stopped and to prevent future occurrences…
FBI announces major worldwide disruption of malware in international cyber operation
The FBI has announced Operation Endgame, a multinational cyber operation involving the US, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, with Europol and Eurojust’s assistance. FBI’s continued fight against cybercrime and malware-as-a-service models…
NCA charges businessman of bribing a foreign official into multi-million pound scheme to benefit PV Energy Ltd, the company he is a director of.
It is alleged that between January 2015 and July 2017, Virdee bribed Asot Michael, a Member of Parliament and Government Minister of Tourism, Economic Development Investment and Energy for Antigua and Barbuda, to benefit PV Energy Ltd, the company he is a director of,” the NCA said in a statement…
GRECO publishes Annual report for 2023, highlighting anti-corruption trends, challenges and good practices in EU and US
GRECO expresses concern about the slow implementation of its recommendations on preventing corruption among parliamentarians, compared to other professional groups. It also underlines that several judicial systems must be further reformed to guarantee the independence of judges and prosecutors, and to strengthen the integrity rules that are applied to them.
Basel Institute of Governance publishes annual report for 2023
Report features seven stories from Basel’s work around the world to promote good governance and counter corruption.
Swiss Aid publishes study on the illegal trade of African gold
According to a new study, between 321 and 474 tons of artisanal gold are produced annually in Africa without being declared, and at least 435 tons of gold were smuggled from the African continent in 2022 alone.
GRECO publishes its third evaluation round second addendum to the second compliance report on Switzerland
Report deals with Incriminations (ETS 173 and 191, GPC 2) and Transparency of Party Funding.
OCCRP: Fishing boats and cargo ships: how Colombian cocaine travels the world
Official statistics on busts of drug shipments originating in Colombia — the world’s largest cocaine producer by far — are scattershot and hard to find. A leak of prosecutor’s office documents helped reporters fill in some gaps.
UNODC reports a record amount of methamphetamine seized in East and Southeast Asia as synthetic drug market expands and evolves
A new report, titled “Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia: latest developments and challenges 2024”, confirms that 190 tons of methamphetamine was seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 – a record level. After dropping slightly in 2022, seizures of methamphetamine rebounded in 2023 to the highest amount ever recorded for the region.
Spotlight on Corruption considers the implications of what it consider a ‘landmark appeal’ against the NCA
Spotlight on Corruption is intervening to support GLAN and WUC because this appeal also has very serious and wide-ranging implications for the UK’s regime for confiscating the proceeds of crime, whether from slave labour, corruption, or indeed environmental crime. If the decision handed down last year were to stand, it could severely undermine UK law enforcement’s ability to investigate and forfeit the proceeds of crime…
SEC charges Intercontinental Exchange and nine affiliates including the New York Stock Exchange failing to inform the commission of a cyber intrusion
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the intercontinental exchange, Inc. agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle charges that it caused the failure of nine wholly-owned subsidiaries, including the New York Stock Exchange, to inform the SEC of a cyber intrusion as required by Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity…