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Stern Implications: Rio Tinto Staff Indicted on Bribery Charges
25 February 2010
Stern Hu, a senior executive of Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto, and three colleagues, have been reportedly indicted in China for alleged bribery and violating commercial secrets. Under the commercial secrets charge, courts can imprison peop...
Topics: Bribery Corruption Espionage FCPA
Swiss Hand over Banking Information
06 January 2010
Norton Rose talks about how German prosecutors in Munich will receive new banking documents to aid their investigation of the engineering company, Siemens AG. The Federal Criminal Court in Switzerland recently rejected an appeal that sought to prevent...
Topics: Bribery Siemens Switzerland
The Fight Against Corruption
16 Dec 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton supports the OECDs anti-corruption agenda. Over the past decade, the now 38 States Parties to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention – the 30 OECD member States and Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Estonia, Israel, Slovenia and South Africa – have implemented laws to criminalise foreign bribery and put in place policies and practices to effectively prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute this crime. But enforcement remains a challenge across the board.
Topics: Bribery Corruption OECD
OECD Bribery Awareness Handbook for Tax Examiners
14 Dec 2009
This OECD Bribery Awareness Handbook for Tax Examiners was recently re-issued to include the new Recommendation on Tax Measures for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions C(2009)64 of May 2009, as part of the OECD’s Global Awareness Campaign in the fight against corruption in international business transactions.
SFO Obtains Civil Recovery Order Against AMEC Plc
05 November 2009
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has obtained a Civil Recovery Order of approximately £5 million against AMEC plc, an international engineering and project management firm. Companies should note the SFO’s recent guidance on overseas bribery which enc...
Topics: Bribery Corruption UK SFO
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