Category OECD

Criminal Penalties, DoJ, Economic Sanctions, FCPA, Iran Sanctions, OECD, SEC

FCPA Totally Useful As a Secondary Sanctions Program

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Total, S.A., the French oil and gas company, agreed to pay $245.2 million to resolve charges that it paid bribes to an Iranian government official by way of purported consulting agreements from…

George Murphy
June 17, 2013
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OECD

Export Complaint Filed with OECD

ABOVE: OECD Headquarters Privacy International, Reporters Without Borders, and three other NGOs filed complaints with the OECD against two companies alleging that their export of surveillance software and systems to Bahrain violated the human rights of dissidents in the kingdom…

Clif Burns
February 19, 2013