Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For June 2019

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: What did a federal court have to say about the jurisdictional reach of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)? How did the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fare in the latest FCPA prosecution to be tried to a jury? Which companies saw their FCPA investigations come to an end? The answers to these questions and more are here in our June 2019 Top Ten list.

1. Federal Court in Illinois Declines to Follow Second Circuit Decision Limiting FCPA Jurisdiction. On June 21, 2019, Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois denied Dmitry Firtash's and Andras Knopp's motion to dismiss an FCPA conspiracy and aiding and abetting charge arising from an alleged scheme to bribe Indian officials for titanium mining