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OSC has begun discussions with legislators in an effort to expand its powers to include wiretapping rights with respect to parties under investigation.

A survey of the past year shows that the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has markedly increased its focus on quasi-criminal court proceedings, indicating a new willingness by the regulator...

On August 24, 2015, the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") released its long awaited Reasons and Decision on Sanctions and Costs in the Finkelstein/Azeff insider trading and tipping matter.

On February 1, 2016, the SEC announced that software manufacturer SAP SE has agreed to pay $3.7 million in disgorgement of profits plus interest to settle charges that it violated the FCPA when unlawfully procuring business in Panama.

On March 28, 2018, the Ontario government in its budget announced the following measures aimed at improving investor protection and enforcement against white-collar crime including securities law offences.

Yesterday we received a request for assistance from a foreign lawyer in connection with a commercial transaction involving a Quebec company. The email was short, concise and seemed perfectly legitimate.

Our Co-Editor, Chris McKibbin, has moved to another firm. We will continue to publish a blog on fidelity issues under the stewardship of David Wilson, Stuart Woody and Maria Christodoulou.

On August 15, 2013, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice convicted Nazir Karigar of offering bribes contrary to section 3(1)(b) of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA).

As of October 31, 2017, facilitation payments will no longer be excluded from the bribery offence under Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (the CFPOA).

Nazir Karigar was sentenced by the Ontario Superior Court to three years imprisonment under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Far-reaching and critical amendments proposed by Bill S-14, An Act to amend the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, received royal assent on June 19, 2013.

Justice Hackland of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued the first prison sentence last week under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

On February 15, 2020, the Department of Finance issued proposed amendments (the Draft Amendments) to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA).

They're elements of a story that just don't come together often. Well, in this case they have, and they've kept the RCMP – and a legion of other government bodies – busy investigating since back in 2015.

Companies need to re-evaluate their compliance programs.

Karigar had acted as an agent of Cryptometrics Canada, an Ottawa-area company, in pursuing a contract to supply security screening equipment to Air India.

We are beginning to see the legal enforcement fallout from the now infamous Panama Papers.

A surprising number of pharmacies and pharmacists are fraudulently overbilling the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) Program for millions of dollars and they are largely getting away with it.