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A New Focus in the Car Wash Probe

This guest post is from Victoria Arcos and Fernanda Martins, anti-corruption lawyers at KLA Koury Lopes Advogados in Brazil.  Brazilian anti-corruption efforts have a new focus – money laundering by banks. These are new targets and are directly connected to the illicit activity and vast corruption schemes that have been under investigation for the past […]

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FBI’s New Miami-Based Corruption Squad Highlights Enforcement Focus on Latin America

This guest post is from Dawn E. Murphy-Johnson, Counsel at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, DC. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has deployed a new anti-corruption squad in its Miami field office to investigate foreign corruption in the “Magic City” and South America. The task force, known as an International Corruption Squad (ICS), mirrors […]

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Anti-Bribery in Brazil: 2017 Developments

Much has been happening in Brazil in the anti-bribery arena. Several developments have been noteworthy. This post highlights five that took place in 2017. Guideline on Leniency Agreements. On August 24, 2017, the 5th Chamber of Federal Prosecutors, the body of the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service dedicated to supporting integration and coordination in the fight […]

Author: Carlos Ayres

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PDVSA at the Center of International Anti-Corruption Efforts

This post was co-authored by Maryna Kavaleuskaya, a Law Clerk at Miller & Chevalier. How do multiple enforcement authorities from different countries hold one of the largest petroleum producers in the world accountable for years of institutionalized corruption? Press reports on investigations of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PDVSA”), suggest several answers. […]

Author: Matteson Ellis

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The Panama Papers: What U.S. Enforcement Could Look Like

The following guest post is from Timothy O’Toole, a Member of Miller & Chevalier who focuses on sanctions, export controls, and other international regulatory and compliance issues. The Panama Papers have recently become a worldwide, front-page news story, in the wake of reports from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) describing the alleged involvement […]

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