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May 13, 2015

International Anti-Corruption Enforcement Roundup

    The U.K. closes a seven-year energy-linked corruption probe after a guilty plea.  A former Alstom director faces U.K. corruption charges.  Chinese search giant Baidu begins an internal graft probe of top officials.  China denies it is investigating Siemens, despite Reuters and Bloomberg reports.  Indonesia’s KPK grills ex-democratic party treasurer’s brother in Bali medical equipment procurement case.  Guatemala’s vice president resigns after bribery allegations.  In Brazil: Petrobras suppliers implicated in the corruption probe expect to receive $8.1 billion from ongoing contracts.  Brazil’s anti-bribery agency is expected to enter leniency agreements in the second quarter of 2015 with firms implicated in the Petrobras probe.  Petrobras executives’ trial is set for June.

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