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A Primer on Extortion Payments | Thomas Fox

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Yesterday, I posted a short primer on facilitation payments. Today, I want to take up another issue which embroils compliance officers from time to time; that being extortion payments. For compliance officers’ purposes, extortion payments are not illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Extortion payments are made for any action which threatens or demands payment for life, liberty, or health. These should be exempted out from your facilitation payments and your compliance program through specific language. You need to do this for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, your employees must understand that the company will support them if they are in any way threatened with harm, arrest or physical detention and/or their health/safety is threatened. As a compliance professional, you need to make sure your employees understand they need to do whatever they have to do to get themselves out of such a situatio

Former Chief Executive Officer of Publicly Traded Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Securities Law Violations

Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center Former Chief Executive Officer of Publicly Traded Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Securities Law Violations Details Written by DOJ New York - A Brazilian national who previously served as a chief executive officer (CEO) of Braskem S.A. (Braskem), a publicly traded Brazilian petrochemical company, pleaded guilty to conspiring to divert hundreds of millions of dollars from Braskem into a secret slush fund and to pay bribes to government officials, political parties, and others in Brazil to obtain and retain business. According to court documents, between approximately 2002 and 2014, Jose Carlos Grubisich, 64, a citizen of Brazil who served as the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Braskem as well as in various capacities for Braskem’s parent company, Odebrecht S.A. (Odebrecht) - engaged in a scheme to bribe Brazilian government officials in vi

DOJ Sees Decrease In Corporate Enforcement Policy Declinations - Corporate/Commercial Law

James Koukios spoke to Global Investigations Review about the U.S. Department of Justice s (DOJ) corporate enforcement policy (CEP), an initiative through which the DOJ promises to publicly decline to prosecute a company if it self-reports potential wrongdoing, fully cooperates, and remediates Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, and why the number of companies receiving such a deal has slowed recently. According to James, companies might shy away from hoping to secure a declination under the policy out of concern that the action will be public, and essentially brand them as having paid bribes. Prior to the policy, there was the possibility that

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