Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For December 2020

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which U.S. agency brought its first foreign bribery-related enforcement action? What major anti-corruption reforms were included in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021? What measures are contained in Brazil's five-year anti-corruption plan? The answers to these questions and more are here in our December 2020 Top 10.

1. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Resolves First Foreign Bribery Case. On December 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Vitol Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Dutch energy and commodities trader, had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) relating to bribes allegedly paid to officials in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico between 2005