New leaked documents released today by Global Witness show that Soco International paid tens of thousands of dollars to a Congolese military officer accused of brutally silencing opponents of its oil exploration in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park. The revelation comes in the wake of Soco’s repeated denials and on the day of […]

On Friday 13th January 2012 the SFO announced that it had obtained a Civil Recovery Order in relation to dividends paid to a company shareholder resulting from corrupt contracts entered into by the investee company. The SFO used the opportunity to fire a warning shot across the bows of the institutional investor community. Speaking following […]

Police are investigating a Tory MP over claims he attempted to bribe voters with chocolate cake. Jesse Norman allegedly gave out cake while campaigning for re-election at an Asda supermarket in his Hereford constituency. West Mercia Police last night said it was investigating reports of a breach of the Representation of the People Act 1983, […]

A Chilean judge ordered the arrest of Carlos Alberto Délano and Carlos Eugenio Lavín, owners of financial holding company Penta Group, and four associates who face tax fraud and bribery charges. Penta officials have been accused of issuing fake invoices, evading taxes, falsifying statements and illegally financing the electoral campaigns of candidates from the right-wing […]

Documents released by a Brazilian court have outlined the alleged use of Swiss bank accounts for the payment of bribes in the Petrobras scandal. Pedro Barusco, a former Petrobras executive and key witness in what is emerging as Brazil’s biggest graft case, said in a statement filed with a court in Parana that he laundered […]

Prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former senior Petrobras executive of racketeering, bribery and money laundering through Switzerland and Uruguay in a widening kickback scandal that has engulfed Brazil’s state-run oil company. Nestor Cerveró was head of international operations at Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is known, from 2003 to 2008, when prosecutors say he […]

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will pay financial regulators more than $16 million to settle charges that its subsidiary in Kenya bribed government and private sector employees to land tire sales. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Goodyear failed to prevent or detect more than $3.2 million in bribes that Kenya subsidiary employees generally paid […]

SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal-based engineering company, and two of its units were charged on Thursday with fraud and bribery in relation to their dealings with the regime of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator. From the New York Times read more: http://nyti.ms/1Em8bvn