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Brazilian Clean Companies Act: Three Practices to Prevent Fraud in Public Procurement
5.25.2015
This guest post was written by Felipe Ferenzini, senior associate at Trench Rossi & Watanabe Advogados. The long-awaited Brazilian Clean Companies Act entered into force on January 29, 2014 and set forth strict rules to prevent the corruption that has been plaguing the country. As a result of Brazil`s change of attitude toward enforcement of […]
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Bridging Compliance under the FCPA and the BCCA
4.28.2015
This guest post is from Eloy Rizzo, a senior attorney with the law firm KLA – Koury Lopes Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Rizzo focuses on anti-corruption and compliance issues, as well as on complex litigation. Mr. Rizzo currently interns at Miller & Chevalier’s anticorruption team in Washington, DC. On March 18, 2015, President […]
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How CCOs Can Use the OECD Foreign Bribery Report
1.09.2015
Last month, the OECD published its first Foreign Bribery Report, measuring transnational corruption based on data from the 427 foreign bribery cases that have been investigated, prosecuted, and concluded since the entry into force of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in 1999. In a panel discussion on December 10th, 2014, hosted by the OECD, International Bar […]
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New Data on World Bank Sanctions: The Office of Suspension and Debarment releases its first report
7.08.2014
The World Bank Sanctions program is still relatively new. Any updated data on how companies and individuals are being investigated and sanctioned for fraud, corruption, and collusion in Bank-financed projects is welcome news to practitioners. To that end, the World Bank’s Office of Suspension and Debarment (OSD) just released its “Report on Functions, Data and […]
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The World Cup and Olympics: Highlighting Corruption Risks in Brazil’s Construction Sector
6.12.2014
Two years ago, FCPAméricas featured local perspectives on the corruption risks arising from the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, both being hosted by Brazil. Now, with the first World Cup match occurring today, the reports of specific instances of abuse are starting to come in. Many of these reports relate to the construction […]