The most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. As always, thanks go to Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office for monitoring these developments. 1. New law or regulation State level: No developments Local level (Beijing & Shanghai): No developments Communist Party Rules: No developments 2. Upcoming law… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to China RSS FeedMonthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report— March 2013
Posted in ChinaThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. 1. New law or regulation State level: No developments Local level (Beijing & Shanghai): No developments Communist Party Rules: No developments 2. Upcoming law… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report — February 2013
Posted in China enforcement actionsThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. 1. New Law or Regulation State level: No developments Local level (Beijing & Shanghai): No developments Communist Party Rules: No developments 2. Upcoming Law… Continue Reading
New Guideline on Personal Information Protection Becomes Effective in China
Posted in ChinaThe treatment of personal information is a tricky issue when investigating suspected violations of anticorruption laws, as many countries around the world have enacted privacy laws. As explained in a new Squire Sanders Client Alert, the text of which is reprinted below, China recently enacted new standards of its own regarding the protection of personal… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report – January 2013
Posted in China enforcement actionsThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. 1. New law or regulation State level: (1) The Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report— November 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actionsThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. 1. New law or regulation State level: (1) Criminal Procedural Rules of the People’s Procuratorate On November 20, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (“SPP”), the… Continue Reading
Judge Hands Down Sentences on Former CCI CEO, Sales Director
Posted in China, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UncategorizedOn November 8, 2012, Judge James Selna (C.D. Cal.) sentenced Stuart Carson, former CEO of Control Components Inc. (“CCI”), and his wife, Hong Rose Carson, the company’s former sales director, for their roles in the company’s violation of the FCPA and Travel Act. In 2009, CCI pleaded guilty to a three-count criminal information that charged… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report– July 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actions, Communist Party, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. New Law or Regulations State level: (1) Regulations on the Management of Governmental Affairs On July 9, the Chinese Sate Council promulgated the new… Continue Reading
Nordam Group Settles China FCPA Violations
Posted in China, China enforcement actions, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActOn July 17, 2012, Nordam Group, Inc. (“Nordam”) an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (“MRO”) service provider based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, entered into a three-year non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with the DOJ to resolve violations of the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions. Conduct According to the NPA, from 1999 until 2008, Nordam, its subsidiaries and affiliates paid bribes… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report– June 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actions, Communist PartyThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions China Enforcement Actions (1) On June 5, Wu Xiaoli (“Wu”), former general manager of the Shanghai Gongxin Project Construction Supervision Center Ltd, a state-owned… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report– May 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actionsThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders Shanghai office for monitoring these enforcement actions. China Enforcement Actions (1) On April 26, 2012, Jiao Baohua (“Jiao”), municipal party secretary of Yining City, Yili Kazak Autonomous County, Urumqi Municipality was… Continue Reading
Former CCI Executive Cops Plea
Posted in China, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActPaul Cosgrove, the former head of worldwide sales at California-based valve manufacturer Control Components Inc. (CCI) pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Cosgrove is the fourth of six company executives to plead guilty to violating or conspiring to violate the FCPA. Cosgrove was previously scheduled to stand trial on June… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anticorruption Update Report– April 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actions, Compliance ProgramThe most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks as always to Squire Sanders Shanghai office for monitoring and reporting on these enforcement actions. China Enforcement Actions (1) On March 31, 2012, Li Ping, former Party chief of Futian District committee, was sentenced to six-and-a-half… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report– March 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actionsAs part of our continued efforts to monitor the antibribery enforcement environment in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), our colleagues in Squire Sanders’ Shanghai office have graciously agreed to provide monthly updates of relevant developments in the PRC’s antibribery laws, regulations and government enforcement actions. The most recent developments are summarized below. Enforcement Actions… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report– February 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actionsThe following monthly update on developments in the People’s Republic of China’s (“PRC”) antibribery laws, regulations and government enforcement actions is brought to you with the assistance of our colleagues in Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office. Enforcement Actions (1) On February 8, 2012, Chen Meng (“Chen”), former chief deputy official of Putuo District, Shanghai, went on… Continue Reading
Monthly China Anti-Bribery Update Report– December 2011 – January 31, 2012
Posted in China, China enforcement actionsAs part of our continued efforts to monitor the antibribery enforcement environment in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), our colleagues in Squire Sanders’ Shanghai office have graciously agreed to provide monthly updates of relevant developments in the PRC’s antibribery laws, regulations and government enforcement actions. The most recent developments are summarized below. Enforcement Actions… Continue Reading
Bribery Charges Dismissed Against Former Schnitzer Steel Executive
Posted in China, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, South KoreaOn October 14, 2011, the DOJ dismissed bribery charges against Si Chan Wooh, the former Executive Vice President and head of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.’s (“Schnitzer Steel”) Tacoma, Washington based subsidiary SSI International which oversaw Schnitzer Steel’s South Korean subsidiary, SSI Korea. Back in 2007, Wooh previously entered into a cooperation agreement with the DOJ… Continue Reading
SEC Issues FCPA Cease and Desist Order as to Watts Water Technologies, General Manager of Chinese Subsidiary
Posted in China, China enforcement actions, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActThe Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has issued an administrative cease and desist order as to Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (“Watts”), a water valve designer and retailer, and Leesen Chang (“Chang”), former general manager of Watts Valve Changsha Co., a wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary of Watts. Conduct Between 2006 and 2009, Chang, on behalf of Watts’s… Continue Reading
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
Getting The Deal Through – Anti-Corruption Regulation 2011
Posted in China, Corporate Finance/M&AMembers of the Squire Sanders China team have written the China chapter to the fifth edition of Getting the Deal Through – Anti-Corruption Regulation 2011, which provides international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people (available here). Following the format adopted throughout the series, our China team has… Continue Reading
China’s Amendment to the Criminal Law to Outlaw Bribery of Foreign Officials Becomes Effective
Posted in ChinaAn amendment of the PRC Criminal Law which criminalizes bribery of foreign government officials and “international public organizations” to secure illegitimate business benefits went into effect on May 1, 2011. The PRC did not have any law addressing cross-border bribery before and this law will be the first law to condemn bribery of foreign officials. This… Continue Reading
Rockwell Settles With SEC Over Former Subsidiary’s Role In China Bribe Case
Posted in China enforcement actions, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActRockwell Automation, Inc. (“Rockwell”), an industrial automation products and services provider, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, resolved an enforcement action in which the SEC alleged it violated the FCPA’s books and records and internal controls provisions through the actions of its former China based subsidiary, Rockwell Automation Power Systems (Shanghai) Ltd. (“RAPS-China”), which was divested by… Continue Reading
IBM and the SEC Settle Up
Posted in China, Foreign Corrupt Practices ActIBM resolved an enforcement action brought by the SEC, which alleged the company violated the FCPA’s books and records and internal controls provisions. SEC alleged IBM subsidiaries and an IBM join-venture made illicit payments and provided gifts, travel and entertainment to Chinese and South Korean government officials for improper purposes. IBM did not admit nor… Continue Reading