— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Shares of Apple Inc were down nearly 3% in afternoon trading on Mon following a Reuters report that the U.S. Dept of Justice was given jurisdiction to include the iPhone maker as part of broader antitrust probe. Stock has since pared…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit faces a series of allegations of corruption, political fraud, money laundering, and involvements into numerous criminal activities, including drug trafficking. For years, he has successfully suffocated the voice of the independent media in that country…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News For the last two years, it has been my privilege to serve as the Consul at the Embassy of the United States of America in Baku. Living and working in Azerbaijan is a pleasure as I experience your rich and ancient…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News OFAC designated several Mexican officials, individuals and entities pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and Executive Order 13818 (Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption). In coordination with other U.S. agencies and Mexican counterparts, OFAC applied sanctions to: Mexican…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A former employee of Irish aid agency Goal is facing charges of theft, bribery and witness tampering following an investigation into alleged corruption in US-sponsored aid programmes in Syria. The US has sought the extradition of former Goal logistics officer Ernest…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Alex Beard helped build Glencore into one of the world’s top three oil trading houses and became a billionaire when it listed on the stock market in 2011. The 51-year-old joined Glencore in 1995, and is stepping down at the end…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. tumbled as the companies appear set to undergo U.S. antitrust probes after the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to split up oversight of technology giants. The DOJ’s preparations to investigate Google, first reported late Friday, mark…
The District Court hearing the bribery case involving former government official Wilson Fung Wing-yip and Macau businesswoman Cheyenne Chan Ung-iok was told that the two defendants had been having a romantic relationship – “like that of a married couple” – that lasted for more than a decade. Fung, who was deputy secretary for economic development and…
The father of the Chinese Yale student, who paid $1.2 million in bribes to get his daughter into the Ivy League school, has been identified. Guo Hulin is a rich businessman from Inner Mongolia. He is wanted by Chinese authorities, along with his brother, on corruption charges. Guo resides in an upscale neighborhood in California,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The effort, the whistleblowers said in a lawsuit against the company, was part of an intentional “multi-tiered strategy” by Questcor Pharmaceuticals, now Mallinckrodt, to boost sales of H.P. Acthar Gel, cheating the government out of millions of dollars. The price of the…
