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Petroecuador Faces Uphill Climb In Seeking “Victim” Status

By Mike Koehler on December 18, 2019 in Foreign Official, Foreign Officials, Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda, Restitution, Victims

In recent years, several entities employing alleged “foreign officials” who receive bribe payments from individuals prosecuted for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act offenses have sought “victim” status under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.

(See here for more on the unsuccessful attempt by Instituto Constarricense de Electricidad of Costa Rica in connection with the Alcatel-Lucent FCPA enforcement action; see here for more on the unsuccessful attempt by a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. in connection with individual FCPA enforcement actions involving the entity).

In the latest attempt, Petroecuador is seeking “victim” status in connection with the FCPA enforcement action against Frank Chatburn (see here for more on the underlying enforcement action).

Friday Roundup

By Mike Koehler on October 11, 2019 in Alejandro Yeatts, Biomet, Braskem SA, Compliance, Compliance Defense, Defamation, Foreign Law Enforcement Cooperation, Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda, Nancy Gougarty, Pemex, Related Civil Litigation, Serious Fraud Office, SFO, Westport Fuels Systems

Scratch that trial, scrutiny alert, affirmed, follow-up, Braskem-related, and across the pond. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Scratch That Trial

One of the FCPA trials scheduled this Fall (see here for the prior post) involved Frank Chatburn. As highlighted here, in April 2018 Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda (a dual United States and Ecuadorian citizen) was criminally charged for conspiring with others for making corrupt payments to PetroEcuador officials in order to obtain and retain contracts for Galileo (described as an Ecuadorian company that provided services in the oil and gas industry) from PetroEcuador.

From The Dockets

By Mike Koehler on August 13, 2019 in Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda, Lawrence Hoskins, Undercover Investigations

Updates in the FCPA prosecutions of Lawrence Hoskins and Frank Chatburn.

Hoskins

This previous post highlighted how Lawrence Hoskins (a U.K. national criminally charged with FCPA offenses in 2013) recently argued “enough is enough” as he seeks dismissal of the indictment based on violations of the Speedy Trial Act and his constitutional rights to a fair and speedy trial.

As reported here:

DOJ Brings Additional Criminal Charges In Connection With PetroEcuador Bribery Scheme

By Mike Koehler on July 3, 2019 in 2019 Enforcement Actions, DOJ Enforcement Action, Ecuador, Foreign Evidence Issues, Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda, Individual Enforcement Action, Statute of Limitations, Uncategorized

Similar to how the April 2018 indictment of Frank Roberto Chatburn Ripalda alleging a bribery scheme involving PetroEcuador officials generally went unnoticed (see here for the prior post), this May 2019 indictment of Armengol Alfonso Cevallas Diaz (an Ecuadorian citizen) and Jose Melquiades Cisneros Alarcon (an Ecuadorian citizen and permanent resident of the U.S.) concerning the same alleged bribery scheme also generally went unnoticed.

The indictment charges Cevallos and Cisneros with conspiracy to violate the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and numerous money laundering offenses.

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Petroecuador Faces Uphill Climb In Seeking “Victim” Status

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DOJ Brings Additional Criminal Charges In Connection With PetroEcuador Bribery Scheme

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