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Charles Laurence | Friday, April 19, 2013 at 3:28AM 
FCPA Blog-sponsor AlixPartners teamed with Dentons to survey multinational companies about their current and future business objectives in Africa.
Richard L. Cassin | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 7:08AM 
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company said last week it has taken remedial measures after an internal investigation into improper payments in Kenya and Angola.
Michael Ndichu Kuria | Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 7:28AM 
In July, I had an interesting conversation with Prof. Alan Doig in Vienna relating to the fight against corruption in my own country, Kenya.
The FCPA Blog | Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 3:48AM 
Here's the summary from the FCPA Blog members area of the gift-giving rules for public employees in Kenya:
Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 10:18AM Is there a link between air safety and corruption? We take a look.
Richard L. Cassin | Friday, June 8, 2012 at 4:28AM Not everyone agrees that aid creates poverty. But we thought of the aid-to-poverty cycle this week.
Richard L. Cassin | Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 2:28PM A secret cable published last week by Wikileaks shows for the first time how decisions to exclude foreign kleptocrats from the United States are made under Presidential Proclamation 7750.
Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 7:21AM Does foreign aid cause corruption? It does, mainly by helping corrupt regimes stay in power. And because corrupt regimes are the most unstable, aid also fuels civil unrest.
Richard L. Cassin | Friday, February 4, 2011 at 7:18AM Two reports from Africa -- from Kenya and Nigeria -- caught our eye.
Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 7:08AM 
Hologram on a 50-Euro bill.Last week Canadian authorities said they've charged Nazir Karigar, a Canadian citizen, with violating the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. He allegedly bribed an Indian official to win a contract for his company.
According to the Globe, Karigar worked for Cryptometrics of Ottawa. The company develops facial recognition software for airports and governments around the globe and its "engineers are accustomed to dealing with the security industry."
Is the security aspect of the case important? It could be.
Karigar is the first individual charged under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. He can't be the first Canadian involved in bribery abroad. Was he charged because his alleged crime compromised airport security in India, a country with security problems that concern the rest of the world?
The White House this year said overseas corruption is "a severe impediment to development and global security." We've reported that Kenyan airport and border security contracts were allegedly tainted by corruption. That led the U.S. to bar entry of some Kenyan officials and the U.K. did likewise. (President Obama went to Kenya in 2006 and talked about the sleaze there.)
The Australian federal police are investigating Securency, the polymer banknote-maker half owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia. The case has security implications. There have been persistent rumors that Securency paid bribes and offered favors to win currency-printing contracts in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The integrity of any country's printed money supply is a global concern.
An older U.S. case with security-related loose ends involves American Bank Note Holographics. It prints currencies, travelers and other checks, and produces credit cards and holograms for use on security-sensitive surfaces. In July 2001, Joshua Cantor, the company's president, pleaded guilty to a four-count federal criminal information. It charged him with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., a books-and-records violation, making false statements to auditors, and conspiracy to violate the FCPA. The charges arose from bribes paid on behalf of American Bank Note in Saudi Arabia. Then in August 2003, Morris Weissman, the former CEO and chairman of the company, was convicted of fraud after a long trial in Manhattan.
Neither Cantor nor Weissman have been sentenced yet, despite a nine-year-old guilty plea and a seven-year-old jury-trial conviction. Is it because of their knowledge of the security-related industry? Have they been helping American and other authorities track down corruption that might make borders leaky and put currencies at risk?
There may not be any visible links among Cantor and Weissman, Securency, Kenyan graft, and Nazir Karigar. But there's a common thread of global security running through them.
