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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 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement. This client update provides an overvie...

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 of failing to be transparent. Both were commenting on the decision by Singapore to walk out of the H...

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 would be undoable if the media room was too crowded. He added that they were not restricting media fre...

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 and defined properly in broad terms and inclusively ranges from the simple giving of a bribe to misapp...

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 it's in the president's 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. they're also saying the president was right to be concerned about hunter biden's involvement in that country. those are a few highligh...