February 26th, 2019German health-care firm Fresenius Medical Care AG said last week in a regulatory filing that it had reached an agreement in principle with U.S. authorities regarding a long-running foreign-bribery investigation that involved an anonymous whistleblower complaint.
Fresenius said in the filing that it received communications beginning in...
July 4th, 2017The outgoing acting inspector of NSW's anti-graft watchdog has recommended winding back the agency's ability to label people "corrupt" because he says an aspect of the power "undermines the presumption of innocence".
Legislation governing the Independent Commission Against Corruption states that such a finding can be made if a...
October 31st, 2016There will no longer be any place for corrupt officials to hide in the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to a communique released Thursday after a four-day key meeting of the CPC.
In efforts to clean up Party politics, leading officials are banned from using their positions to seek benefits for friends and family. Family...
July 18th, 2016View this presentation which outlines our most read Ethical Alliance Daily News articles from April through June 2016, providing a valuable overview of the state of anti-corruption compliance.
February 16th, 2016(Photo: Ukraine Crisis Media Center)
Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaly Kasko, who was given the job of cleaning up a corrupt, politically subservient and ineffective institution employing 15,000 prosecutors, quit on Feb. 15.
In this farewell press conference, Kasko cited corruption and sabotage by General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin in...
December 28th, 2015Thangmeiband MLA Kh Joykishan today charged all ministers of the Congress government of being corrupt and even challenged Social Welfare minister Ak Mirabai that he will end his political career if she could prove that her replies to a starred question during an Assembly session in 2012 are true.
The MLA was speaking at his reception...
November 30th, 2015(Photo: Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
Deliberations will resume tomorrow in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Jurors deliberated Tuesday and then for three hours on Wednesday before the judge sent them home for the holiday.
One juror asked to be excused after she claimed she was being bullied by...
November 23rd, 2015(Photo: REUTERS/STEFAN WERMUTH)
Britain's "woefully inadequate" anti-money laundering system has left the country wide open to corrupt money and terrorism funds and needs radical overhaul, a leading anti-corruption group said on Monday.
Each year billions of pounds of dirty money flow through Britain, but the system for identifying it...
November 20th, 2015So, we have covered the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s (“FCPA”) scope, but the FCPA anti-bribery provisions also contain certain exceptions and affirmative defenses. These exceptions and affirmative defenses attempt to carve out legitimate payments to foreign officials, so the FCPA does not unreasonably hamper international...
November 20th, 2015(Photo: Hawaii News Now)
Honolulu's police chief is trying to keep more damaging information out of the news, while he and his wife face both city and federal investigations, Hawaii News Now has learned.
Sources say Chief Louis Kealoha's attorney has asked the city Ethics Commission to investigate whistleblowers and the commission is...