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By Mike Koehler on April 29, 2022 in Argentina, Dmitry Firtash, FCPA Trial, FCPA Trials, Internal Controls, Roger Ng

Checking in with Firtash, what the …?, if only it were that simple, and for the reading stack.

It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Checking In With Firtash

As highlighted in this prior post, in April 2014 the DOJ announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment charging six individuals “with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes of state and central government officials in India to allow the mining of titanium minerals.” Among the defendants was high-profile Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash.

Checking In On The Firtash Motion To Dismiss

By Mike Koehler on February 21, 2019 in Dmitry Firtash, Foreign Nationals, Jurisdiction, Lawrence Hoskins

Prior posts here and here have focused on extradition issues related to Firtash and this prior post highlighted Firtash’s May 2017 motion to dismiss.

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By Mike Koehler on January 11, 2019 in Boeing, Ciena Corp, Collateral Effects, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Demand for Bribes, Dmitry Firtash, DOJ, Electrobras, McKinsey & Co., Non-Prosecution Agreement, Odebrecht, Raul Gorrin Belisario, SEC, Third Parties, Treasury Department

Interesting, from the DOJ’s perspective, pay them more, sanctioned, scrutiny update, exit, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Interesting

As highlighted here, in December 2016 Odebrecht S.A. (a Brazilian holding company) and Braskem S.A. (a Brazil-based petrochemical company in which Odebrecht owns a majority of voting shares) resolved a large FCPA and related enforcement action largely concerning conduct in Brazil including the companies relationships with Petrobras as well as allegations of improper payments in Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Mozambique, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

Firtash Files Motion To Dismiss DOJ FCPA And Related Charges Brought In 2014

By Mike Koehler on May 11, 2017 in Dmitry Firtash, FCPA Jurisprudence, Foreign Nationals, Jurisdiction, Travel Act

Among those charged was Dmitry Firtash, a high-profile Ukrainian businessman.

Prior to the April 2014 unsealed indictment, Firtash was arrested in Austria and thereafter paid $174 million to post bail. Responding to the U.S. criminal charges, as noted in this prior post, Firtash released a video which insisted he is an innocent party caught at the center of a “battlefield for the two biggest global players of Russia and the USA.”

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By Mike Koehler on February 24, 2017 in Dmitry Firtash, Extradition, FCPA Investigative Costs, Frank’s International, Graña y Montero S.A.A., Investigative Fees, Lennox International, McDermott International, Resource Extraction Disclosure

Firtash extradition, scrutiny alerts and updates, spot-on observation, and refreshing words. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Firtash Extradition

In April 2014, the DOJ announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment charging six individuals “with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes of state and central government officials in India to allow the mining of titanium minerals.” (See here for the prior post).

Among those charged was Dmitry Firtash, a high-profile Ukrainian businessman.

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