Following a two week trial, on August 4, 2011, a federal jury convicted Joel Esquenazi and Carlos Rodriguez, former executives of Terra Telecommunications Corp. (“Terra”), on all counts for their roles in a scheme to pay bribes to Haitian government officials at the state-owned Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M (Haiti Teleco). The DOJ’s press release is here…. Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
China Mobile’s Deputy General Manager Receives Suspended Death Sentence
Posted in ChinaThe following is a guest post from Doris Chen in Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s Shanghai Office. Zhang Chunjiang, the former deputy general manager of China Mobile was sentenced to death by Chinese People’s Court on July 22, 2011 for the crime of bribery. He was also the chief secretary of China Mobile’s CPC Committee and held senior… Continue Reading
Indian Anticorruption Ombudsman
Posted in IndiaThe Lokpal Bill, 2011 (PDF/541KB/40 pages), has today been introduced to the Lok Sabha (House of the People), the lower house of the Parliament of India. Its remit is to develop effective anti-corruption and grievance redressal systems so that an effective deterrent is created against corruption and to provide effective protection to whistleblowers. At its centre is the office… Continue Reading
Bribery Act 2010: consultation on anti-bribery guidance for transactions published by Transparency International UK
Posted in UK Bribery ActAs pointed out by Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s Capital Markets Practice Review for July 2011, “on 1 July 2011, the day the Bribery Act 2010, came into force, Transparency International UK published a consultation on its draft anti-bribery guidance for transactions. The draft guidance aims to provide practical help for companies wishing to undertake anti-bribery… Continue Reading