The World Bank’s Anti-Corruption Coordination with National Authorities
How serious can The World Bank’s sanctions process really be? After all, the Bank’s investigators lack many of the powers that national authorities often take for granted. The powers to subpoena...
View ArticleThe World Bank’s Negotiated Resolution: Settling a Sanctions Case
Settlements of foreign bribery charges by national authorities are common. The vast majority of the DOJ’s FCPA actions end in plea agreements, deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), or non-prosecution...
View ArticleCompliance and Enforcement at The World Bank’s Sanctions Program
The following article was originally published in the ABA’s International Law News, Volume 42, Number 1. It is republished below with the permission of the ABA. Note that an important clarification...
View ArticleSNC-Lavalin Got You Down? What to do when a business partner is accused of...
For those monitoring foreign bribery cases, 2013 is starting to get busy. In the United States, the last couple of months have included the unsealing of FCPA actions against BizJet executives and Wall...
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World Bank Sanctions “Stock Taking”: Corporate group treatment and other hot...
The World Bank is asking for your help in a “stock-taking” exercise to evaluate the system by which it sanctions companies and individuals found to have engaged in corrupt, fraudulent, collusive,...
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The Unknowns of Brazil’s New Anti-Bribery Law (Part 2, How will the statute’s...
In Part 1 of this series, FCPAméricas discussed the unknowns related to eventual enforcement of Brazil’s new Anti-Bribery Law. In this post, we discuss questions related to how the statute’s provisions...
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Movement Towards International Anticorruption Standards?
Is the time ripe for a common international anticorruption standard? At a recent World Bank panel discussion regarding “Corruption and PPPs: Challenges and Solutions,” all four panelists – including...
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A Seat at the Table: Alternatives to restitution for FCPA victims
Corruption is not a victimless crime, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the enforcement of international bribery laws. A recent study published by the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative...
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Corruption, Crisis, and Reform: the Example of Ukraine
The following guest post is from William Buschur, a law student at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The post is about Ukraine – a country outside of FCPAmerica’s usual Latin American...
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New Data on World Bank Sanctions: The Office of Suspension and Debarment...
The World Bank Sanctions program is still relatively new. Any updated data on how companies and individuals are being investigated and sanctioned for fraud, corruption, and collusion in Bank-financed...
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