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“If that is in your law, please fix it.”
Four of the nine commissioners from Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission spent this week in Washington describing their anti-corruption efforts and learning more about the American model. I...
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The Singular Case of Facilitating Payments in Thailand
For a long time, we at TRACE have railed against statements at conferences and in articles that facilitation payments are illegal in almost every country in which they’re paid. We’ve done a lot of...
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SEC Charges Four Former Tobacco Company Employees With FCPA Violations in...
On April 28, 2010, the SEC filed a settled civil injunctive action against four former employees of Dimon, Inc. (now Alliance One International, Inc.) for violations of the FCPA in connection with...
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Hollywood Producers Sentenced
On August 12, 2010, Hollywood film producers Gerald and Patricia Green each were sentenced to six months in prison followed by six months of home confinement and were each ordered to pay $250,000 in...
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Diageo Settles with SEC over FCPA Violations in India, Thailand and South...
On July 27, 2011, Diageo plc, the London-based global premium spirits producer, settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that the company violated the FCPA’s books and...
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Logging and Corruption
Corruption is a very high risk in the logging industry. To date, authorities have carried out very few high profile bribery investigations of companies in this sector, but governments are increasingly...
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Thailand – Strengthening Anti-Corruption Measures and the Public Procurement...
Progress against corruption in Thailand has been slow. Clemence Gautier, a consultant at TRACE’s partner firm in Bangkok, describes the legislative enactments as well as the impediments to...
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Tyco International settles FCPA charges for USD 26 million
Recent Enforcement Developments SEC and DOJ settle FCPA charges with Tyco International. In April 2006, an FCPA action was filed against Tyco by the SEC. Tyco consented to the entry of a final...
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