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Analysing the law and practice of international investigations into corporate misconduct & related enforcement.

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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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Petrofac ex-COO charged with bribery https://t.co/UT9MIdIE7q By @SamllFry

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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. https://t.co/7sUVavPGXg

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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

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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. https://t.co/AEPYdZ3AVZ

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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

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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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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 https://t.co/ue1P47cgyq

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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. https://t.co/D9BIMca6Lt

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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. https://t.co/MZHpOy54Am

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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. https://t.co/4VXxx4hd9r

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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. https://t.co/fc2uOUwT5z

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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. https://t.co/nvnXxEGGZA

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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. https://t.co/Qa2sftHqiJ

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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. https://t.co/3UR1QqpJHq

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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. https://t.co/0ycf7kugbw

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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

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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 https://t.co/mnuALXSyIa