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Italy’s highest court overturns Milan prosecutors’ Shell-Eni convictions: Reuters
Caribbean lender completes FATCA, money laundering conspiracy DPA
A Brooklyn federal court has dismissed a criminal case against an offshore bank based in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for conspiracy to breach a US law designed to prevent US taxpayers from dodging taxes.
Former FCPA trial attorney joins SAP
A former prosecutor who spent seven years at the DOJ’s foreign bribery team has joined the German software company as head of investigations.
TI: Law enforcement not using financial intelligence to trigger new cases
A report by anti-corruption organisation Transparency International has concluded that law enforcement agencies across the world are using “proactively disseminated intelligence” too inconsistently.
Former German church official convicted over US investment bribes
A Munich court has handed the former finance director of a Catholic diocese in southern Germany a suspended prison sentence for accepting just over $100,000 in bribes to invest the church’s money in “risky” US real estate projects.
Former Argentinian minister sentenced over “private meetings” with Odebrecht
The convictions of the former minister and two other senior public officials are the first to be handed down in Argentina in connection with Operation Car Wash, which uncovered a vast corruption scheme by the Brazilian construction company across Latin America.
New UK corporate criminal liability regime comes into force
Czech Republic introduces DPA-style resolution mechanism
From 1 July, companies operating in the central European country will be able to enter into non-trial-based, “conditional waivers of prosecution” resolutions, under which public prosecutors will also be able to impose monitors for the first time.
OFAC designates alleged “key links” of PCC
The US government has sanctioned two Brazilian nationals, three Brazilian companies, and one Portuguese entity for their links to São Paulo-based criminal gang PCC, which was designated as a foreign terrorist organisation in early June.
Austrian banker’s Odebrecht-linked guilty plea reveals role in Antigua bribery scheme
Peter Weinzierl’s plea agreement documents included a plot to bribe Antiguan officials in 2015 to help conceal “evidence of money laundering” by Odebrecht that wasn’t outlined in the original charges against him.
Netherlands to prosecute Tata Steel subsidiary over alleged pollution
The company believes the charges are unnecessary and concern a “limited number” of historical “incidents” at its steel factory on the west coast of the Netherlands.
UK tax agency launches revamped whistleblower reward scheme
Cooperating defendant in cum-ex trials spared prison time by Germany’s top court
Germany’s highest court has upheld a lower court’s non-custodial sentence for a lawyer who gave evidence for the prosecution in several cum-ex trials before being convicted of participating in the same illicit tax practice.