Corruption, Public Contracts, Criminal Prosecution

DOJ Indicts Indian Billionaire and Seven Other Individuals for Bribery and Fraud Scheme Involving Payments to Indian Government...

The Volkov Law Group on 12/20/2024

In a far-reaching criminal case, in November 2024, the Justice Department unsealed a complex, five-count indictment in the Eastern District of New York charging eight defendants, including Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani and...more

Not a silver bullet: public procurement lessons from the G4S DPA

Hogan Lovells on 8/12/2020

On 17 July 2020, a three-year Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and G4S Care & Justice Services (UK) Ltd (G4S) was approved. This DPA is the second arising from fraudulent conduct in...more

Three Former Executives from Alstom and Marubeni Charged with Criminal FCPA Violations in Indonesia

The Volkov Law Group on 2/26/2020

In its continuing aggressive FCPA criminal enforcement program, DOJ announced the indictment of two former Alstom executives and a former Marubeni executive with FCPA violations arising from a bribery scheme in Indonesia....more

Ericsson Agrees To Pay Over USD $1 Billion To Settle FCPA Charges

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/3/2020

On December 6, 2019, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or the Company), resolved long-running investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the...more

Second Circuit Decision Rejects Expansion of Geographic Reach of FCPA

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 9/7/2018

A Brief Overview of the FCPA - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a federal statute that prohibits United States companies and individuals from bribing foreign government officials in order to gain or retain...more

Court of Appeals Cuts Back Extraterritorial FCPA Jurisdiction Over Foreign Nationals

The Volkov Law Group on 9/5/2018

The Justice Department’s attempt to assert broad jurisdiction over foreign nationals was rebuked in a recent US Court of Appeals decision in United States v. Hoskins....more