Record Level of FCPA Enforcement in 2020 Highlights Key Risk Areas | Miller Canfield jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The year 2020 witnessed a record level of $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties from enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It also witnessed continued close cooperation by the DOJ and SEC with enforcement authorities in other countries, resulting in billions of additional dollars in fines and penalties by foreign enforcement authorities. These trends, which will likely continue and even expand in 2021, highlight the urgent need for companies to identify the key risk areas of FCPA exposure they face in their international operations, and to maintain compliance programs that work in practice, not just on paper. This is especially important for companies operating in or doing business with certain high-risk countries, such as China, India and Brazil, which may draw special attention from the DOJ and SEC because of recurring corrup
Global Participation and Protection of Women Civil Society Activists, Journalists, and Peacebuilders — Agenparl agenparl.eu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from agenparl.eu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Do US-Educated Foreign Soldiers Learn Democratic or Dictatorial Values?
Several notorious coup plotters and human rights violators – among them Argentina’s 1970s-era military junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri and Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt – were trained by the United States military.
The leadership of a U.S.-trained special operations officer, Col. Assimi Goita, in Mali’s August 2020 coup has reignited an old American debate about whether U.S. military education of foreigners is spreading respect for democracy or empowering future dictators.
Several notorious coup plotters and human rights violators – among them Argentina’s 1970s-era military junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri and Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt – were trained by the United States military. So was the Islamic State group’s minister of war, Gulmurod Khalimov.
US-educated foreign soldiers learn democratic values, study shows – though America also trains future dictators thetelegraph.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraph.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.