Fr secretary of Defense of Mexico cleared of DEA accusations
Fr secretary of Defense of Mexico cleared of DEA accusations
Mexico, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) The former Secretary of Defense of Mexico, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, has been cleared of accusations surrounding alleged relations with drug trafficking, the Attorney General s Office announced today. The retired general did not associate with drug traffickers, never had any encounter with the members of the criminal organization investigated by the US authorities (H-2 Cartel, of the Beltran Leyva brothers), neither did he maintain any communication with them, nor did he carry out any acts aimed at protecting or helping said individuals, as per the ruling of the Prosecutor s Office.
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 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement.
This client update provides an overview of the FCPA and other domestic and international anti-corruption enforcement, litigation, and policy developments from 2020, as well as the trends we see from this activity. We at Gibson Dunn are privileged to help our clients navigate these challenges daily and are honored again to have been ranked Number 1 in the
Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs
by Jenny Gonzales on 8 January 2021
Fifty million hectares (124 million acres) of undesignated forest in the Brazilian Amazon, an area the size of Spain, is under growing threat of illegal occupation and deforestation facilitated by a controversial government land registry.
A Greenpeace Brazil study shows 62% of undesignated forest along a stretch of the BR-163 Highway has been illegally invaded and then registered by the occupiers with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR).
CAR, a self-declaratory system, was created in 2012 to help identify those responsible for rural plots, however, combined with the current weakening of environmental agencies and of field actions against deforestation, it’s helping legitimize land grabbing.
Amazon tribe wins unprecedented compensation for deforestation on their land
An unprecedented court settlement guaranteed reparations to the Ashaninka people of the state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, whose lands were deforested in the 1980s to supply the European furniture industry. December 27, 2020 / 08:34 AM IST
File image: Ashaninka people holding a meeting to discuss their planned occupation of the former government base called the Envira Front of Ethno-environmental Protection in Kokasul along the Envira river in Brazil s northwestern Acre state March 16, 2014. (Image: Reuters/Lunae Parracho) An unprecedented court settlement guaranteed reparations to the Ashaninka people of the state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, whose lands were deforested in the 1980s to supply the European furniture industry. The logging company penalized was owned by the family of the current governor of Acre, Gladson Cameli.
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