International Anti-Corruption Enforcement Roundup

Six Ecopetrol employees have been arrested in Colombia for PetroTiger bribes.  A former executive at Australia’s largest bank has been charged with bribery.  China’s supreme court and supreme prosecutor claim the GSK anti-bribery case was a major achievement for 2014.  A mid-level PwC manager has been questioned in an Indian corporate espionage probe.  In Brazil: The anti-bribery agency is expected to start proceedings against seven other Petrobras suppliers; Brazil recovers $44.5 million in bribes from former Petrobras manager; Petrobras assembles a task force to include bribery losses in its financial results; and President Rousseff and her predecessor have been cleared of corruption charges.  For more on Petrobras, see “History and Consequences of the Extensive Petrobras Scandal,” above.

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