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Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020...

Question marks over HSR Pix for representational purpose only. PETALING JAYA: The government has been urged to come clean on the reasons behind the decision to cancel the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project. Former Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president Datuk Seri Akhbar Satar expressed curiosity over the government’s apparent decision to hush up the matter, while Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) president Cynthia Gabriel accused the government ...

Copy URL BEFORE the tabling of Budget 2021, Parliament issued a notice that only 15 media agencies were allowed to attend and report on the budget, including Berita Harian and Astro Awani. According to them, the decision was made with Covid-19 in mind and in line with the SOP set by the Health Ministry and National Security Council. Following that, Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzril questioned why there was a limit to the number of agencies. Speaker Azhar Harun answered that physical distancing wo...

Rooting out the mother of all evils Corruption is the gangrene that will eventually destroy the whole body if pre-emptive action is not undertaken. IT’S BEEN sagaciously said that the love of money lies at the root of all evils. Experience tells us that this is so and therefore, it could also be said that the vice of corruption or bribes as an element of the “original sin” of the love of money constitutes a root – as part of the wider root – of all evils. Corruption, understood an...

Phone call between president trump and president zelensky is fine and nothing inappropriate about the call and also saying the president was right to be skeptical of ukraine and corruption arguing this is a country with a history of corruption and therefore its in the presidents full rights to not release that nearly $400 million in u.s. military aid unless he was really sure everything they were doing would help combat corruption. those are a few highlights. theyre also saying the president was...

Job is just to go beat them. >> so you remember of course and many of you im sure also saw "the new york times" op-ed written by the anonymous senior trump official. so that person has now written a book called "a warning." comes out next week and just tonight weve gotten an excerpt. i just wanted to share it with you. >> uh-oh. >> in is about. those of us who have seen these sorts of wreck less that he wanted to help combat corruption was barely believable to nen around him. the president had...

Themselves and to work towards these free, fair, fast, inclusive elections. were also working with the interim government to help combat corruption and to recover stolen assets. and we are helping ukraine to cope with russias politically motivated trade practices, whether it is manipulating the energy supply, or banning the best chocolates made in ukraine. the fact is, this is a 21st century. and we should not see nations step backwards to behave in 19th or 20th century fashion. there are ways t...

Expertise available to help ukraines economy and financial institutions, repair themselves, and to work towards these free, fair, fast, inclusive elections. we are also working with the interim government to help combat corruption and to recover stolen assets, and we are helping ukraine to cope with russias politically motivated trade practices, whether its manipulating the energy supply or banning the best chocolates made in ukraine. the fact is, this is the 21st century, and we should not see ...

Men sie hen sieve plan. we will provide the best expertise available to help them repair themselves and to work towards these free, fair, fast, inclusive elections. we are also working with the interim government to help combat corruption and to recover stolen assets. we are helping ukraine to cope with russias politically motivated trade practices, whether it is manipulating the energy supply toor banning the best made in ukraine. the fact is that this is the 21st century. we should not see nat...