Scrutiny Alerts
Avantor
Avantor is a chemicals and materials company headquartered in Pennsylvania. Recently, various Republican Senators sent this letter to DOJ and SEC leadership requesting an investigation into the company “for its apparent longstanding contribution to the opioid epidemic that killed 50,000 of our fellow citizens in 2019 ….”.
Although the letter does not allege any bribery, it does reference the FCPA’s books and records and internal controls provisions and states in pertinent part: