Sentences with phrase «of foreign public officials»

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

Canada signed the convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in 1997 and in 1999 the act became law.

S6: Bribery of a foreign public official with intent to obtain or retain business or an advantage in business.

The bribery of foreign public officials by individuals and entities was criminalised in 2011 through an amendment to the Criminal Law.

The Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act came into force on February 14, 1999.

The Karigar case is a small but significant move toward remedying Canada's reputation for having a lax attitude toward enforcement, since it marks the first time an individual has been sentenced under Canada's 1999 Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Back when the teams were born, global anti-corruption advocates accused Canada of failing to enforce its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), introduced in 1999.

Last week saw the sentencing of Nazir Karigar to 3 years in jail, under Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

PARIS, April 24 - The lawyer for Vincent Bollore said on Tuesday the French billionaire was being investigated over the suspected corruption of foreign public officials and suspected complicity in corruption.

The RCMP now has more than 30 ongoing investigations into violations of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), a product of this era, became law in 1999.

And in Canada, we have the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, circa 1999.

Griffiths Energy International Inc. (GEI) entered a guilty plea on January 22, 2013 to a criminal charge under section 3 (1)(b) of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), and agreed to a fine in the amount of $ 10.35 million.

In Canada, increased scrutiny and exposure in this area is linked mainly to changes to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (in 2013) and Public Works Canada's integrity rules (in 2014).

These amendments, the most important since the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) was first enacted in 1998, will require that anti-corruption compliance programs of Canadian businesses operating overseas be revised immediately, particularly to take into account the new books and records provision and phasing out of the exception for facilitation payments.

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.

The Ontario Superior Court recently convicted Nazir Karigar, an agent for Cryptometrics Canada, an Ottawa - based technology company, for agreeing to bribe a foreign public official under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Guidelines for Compliance with Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and UK Bribery Act

The purpose of this Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy (the «Policy») is to reiterate Nevsun's commitment to full compliance by the Company and its officers, directors, employees and agents with Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act («CFPOA»), the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act («FCPA»), the UK Bribery Act («UKBA») and any applicable local anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.

In 2011, she acted as defence counsel in the first prosecution under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

The first Canadian charged and convicted under Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was handed a three - year jail sentence Friday.

When Nazir Karigar is sentenced the first week of April for conspiring to bribe a foreign public official, contrary to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, it is likely the court will be looking to send a strong message, say legal observers.

Canada's foreign anti-bribery law, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), makes it a serious criminal offence for Canadians and Canadian companies to bribe foreign government officials.

It now includes fraudulent manipulation of stock exchange transactions, insider trading, falsification of books, extortion, forgery and other offenses resembling forgery, criminal breach of contract, bribery of judicial officers, and secret commissions, as well as new offences under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

We also help businesses comply with the Competition Act, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, and other laws, by providing practical advice.

Mark regularly advises Canadian and multinational corporate clients on compliance with domestic and international anti-corruption legislation (including the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA)-RRB-, and has conducted numerous CFPOA internal investigations.

Deterrence and denunciation of bribery of foreign public officials were at the fore as a judge sentenced Ottawa businessman Nazir Karigar to three years in jail for agreeing to offer... [more] Full article

Invited by the Government of Canada to speak at a conference in Mumbai and New Delhi with respect to Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Advocate for legal counsel investigated for the laundering of bribery of foreign public officials;

The US has led the way for decades, with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (FCPA), and later the international community with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials (the Convention).

Section 4 relates to bribery of foreign public officials (F).

Comparable Canadian legislation is the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act S.C. 1998, c. 34, which has not been as vigorously enforced as it might be, although there are signs this may be changing: see «Importance of Anti-Corruption Due Diligence for International Transactions» by Morrison, Dixon, Sosnow & Neave; and the more recent «Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act shows its teeth» by Paul Beaudry.

Consider the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Canada's equivalent, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

With laws such as the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the upcoming anti-spam law with penalties and consequences of significant impact to businesses, compliance is not an option or a «good to have,» it is essential to their continuance.

Broadly, the draft Bill creates two general offences covering the offering, promising and giving of a bribe; and requesting, agreeing to receive a bribe or accepting a bribe; a discrete offence of bribery of a foreign public official; and a new offence of negligent failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery.

In addition to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, there are other concerns for Canadian companies doing business abroad.

- The corruption offences in PBCPA 1889 and the Prevention of Corruption Acts cover (respectively) the corruption of foreign public officials and foreign «agents» in the public or private sector.

In Canada, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act has been around since 1998, but there's only been one significant prosecution under the act — the case against Niko Resources Ltd., which this past June was hit with a $ 9.5 - million fine for its actions in Bangladesh.

Implemented in 1997, Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act has only had four cases come to fruition.

But it's a much easier sell now as news about Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act makes the headlines more often.

Represented a Canadian health sciences corporation under investigation for violations of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.