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Mitigating Corruption Risk, A “Multinational Toothache”

Written by Compliance Wave | September 9, 2019 at 8:51 PM

9/9/19:  In a post on the Forbes website, Richard Levick puts the challenge of mitigating corruption risk in perspective:  it’s a “multinational toothache that won’t go away.”

Levick frames the toothache with a comment by George “Ren” McEachern, a former Acting Chief of the FBI’s International Corruption Unit who now helps multinational corporations address regulatory risk as a Managing Director at Exiger, who said, “It’s no longer just the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI’s International Corruption Unit that under the Foreign Corruption Practices Act (FCPA) have ramped up their anticorruption investigations. In the last few years, the international enforcement landscape has profoundly changed, too.” Levick offers insights into the challenges facing companies in a global economy...