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Dec. 16, 2015

Regional Risk Spotlight:  Michael Farhang of Gibson Dunn Discusses Colombia’s Troubled Corruption History and Recent Reforms

  • Megan Zwiebel
    Anti-Corruption Report
One of the biggest FCPA news stories of 2015 was the surprise guilty plea of former PetroTiger CEO Joseph Sigelman during his DOJ trial.  That case brought the corruption climate in Colombia, South America’s fourth-largest economy, to the forefront.  For this installment of the Regional Risk Spotlight, the Anti-Corruption Report spoke with Michael Farhang, a partner at Gibson Dunn and an expert on Latin America, about Colombia’s troubled past and its recent efforts to curb corruption as it emerges as an economic powerhouse.  See previously “Regional Risk Spotlight: Douglas Mancill of PriceSanond Explains the Thai Corruption Landscape” (Nov. 18, 2015).

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