Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments For August 2017

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: Is the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) still using undercover operations and wiretaps to make FCPA cases? What foreign bribery enforcement actions were brought in Sweden and Switzerland? Will the UK require companies to make stronger anti-corruption disclosures in their annual reports? The answers to these questions and more are here in our August 2017 Top Ten list.

1. Following Undercover Investigation, DOJ Charges Retired U.S. Army Colonel with Conspiring to Bribe Haitian Officials. On August 29, 2017, DOJ announced that Joseph Baptiste, a dentist and retired U.S. Army colonel, was charged in Massachusetts federal court with one count of conspiring to violate the FCPA and to commit money laundering for his role in an