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Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:28AM 
Authorities in Sweden arrested an executive and questioned several others from international engineering and manufacturing firm Bombardier as part of an investigation into corruption in Azerbaijan.
Richard L. Cassin | Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 3:22PM 
Rolls-Royce plc agreed to pay the United States a criminal penalty of $170 million under a deferred prosecution agreement after being charged with a long-running global conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Andrew Weissmann, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Rolls Royce, Thailand |
Richard L. Cassin | Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 10:08AM 
Azerbaijani President Ilham AliyevThe president of oil-rich Azerbaijan and his two daughters own foreign luxury flats and homes -- three of them in London -- together worth $140 million.
Richard L. Cassin | Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:08AM 
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova is in prison in Baku after she published a series of reports about corruption in the Azerbaijan regime.
Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 10:01AM 
Two former executive directors of Austria's state-owned banknote printer pleaded guilty during a criminal trial in Vienna for a conspiracy to win business by bribing officials in Syria and Azerbaijan.
Richard L. Cassin | Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 7:28AM 
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) signed an unusually rich production sharing agreement with a company based in the United Arab Emirates that has close ties to Azeri officials.
Richard L. Cassin | Monday, May 12, 2014 at 6:18AM 
Freedom House said in its latest report that 54 countries showed overall declines in political rights and civil liberties, compared with 40 that showed gains.
Richard L. Cassin | Monday, March 24, 2014 at 6:08AM 
Image courtesy of the Federal Bureau of PrisonsFrederic Bourke served nearly a year as an inmate of Englewood Camp, a 165-bed minimum-security prison in the southwest suburbs of Denver, Colorado. He walked free on March 21.
Julie DiMauro | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 2:18AM 
Wolfgang Duchatczek, courtesy of YouTubeThe former deputy governor of Austria's central bank and eight other defendants went on trial Monday for allegedly bribing officials in Azerbaijan and Syria to win banknote contracts.
Richard L. Cassin | Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 11:58PM 
The former hedge fund executive who pleaded guilty nine years ago to conspiracy to violate the FCPA was sentenced Wednesday to time he aleady served in jail.
Richard L. Cassin | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 1:08PM 
Clayton Lewis, the hedge fund partner who invested and lost $126 million in Viktor Kozeny's Azeri privatization scheme, won't be sentenced until at least April, according to an order issued this month by the judge hearing his case.
The FCPA Blog | Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7:02AM 
Gular AhmadovaAn Azerbaijani politician expelled from the ruling party after being implicated in a corruption scandal has been arrested.
Azerbaijan, Gular Ahmadova, Youtube |