Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For January 2022

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask:  What did the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have to say about payments made to foreign officials under duress? What lessons can be learned from the latest installment of Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index? Which industry was added to the scope of China's years' long anti-corruption crackdown? The answers to these questions and more are here in our January 2022 Top 10 list.

1. DOJ Releases Rare FCPA Opinion Procedure Release, Addresses Payments Made Under Duress. In its first FCPA Opinion Procedure release since August 2020, on January 21, 2022, DOJ stated that it did not intend to take an enforcement action against a U.S.-based company for making a payment to a