Menu2/11/19: “In the past, the notion of prosecuting an executive of a multinational corporation residing in a foreign country, especially one on the far side of the world, may have seemed remote.” So begins a Special Report: Corporate Fraud and Corruption in Financier Worldwide Magazine for February 2019. The article points to two examples of how that once-remote notion has been turned on its head.
After reviewing the tools that enforcement agencies have at their disposal in pursuing suspects across the globe, the article tears apart the cases of IMBD and Huawei. “The takeaway for international businesses is this: lax internal compliance or shoddy oversight can open the door to criminal exposure for individual corporate officers.”.
