Sentences with phrase «of foreign public officials act»

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The individual Respondents (the «accused») are jointly charged with one count of bribing foreign public officials under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act in relation to SNC - Lavalin's bid for a construction supervision contract for the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The RCMP now has more than 30 ongoing investigations into violations of Canada's 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.

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.

Not exact matches

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.

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).

The landmark Bribery Act introduced clarity to corruption laws that had been in place for over 100 years and established far wider - ranging powers for criminalising the abuse of power in foreign jurisdictions by both corporate institutions and public officials.

(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;