From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 12 July 2016

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United States: Johnson Controls pays $14.4 mln to end SEC bribery probe
Jul 12, 2016 08:00 pm
Johnson Controls Inc agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle U.S. regulatory charges that its workers bribed Chinese shipbuilders and shipyards, including some owned by the Chinese government, to win business and enrich themselves. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission […]
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Interview: Kiew Chiawen, Principal Investigations Manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Ethical Alliance Advisory Council Member
Jul 12, 2016 07:30 pm
Read our recent interview with Kiew Chiawen, Principal Investigations Manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and member of the Ethical Alliance Advisory Council, to hear his thoughts on anti-corruption and compliance issues and his views on the future of enforcement.
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Hong Kong: ICAC chief claims he alone, and not CY Leung, made decision to remove deputy
Jul 12, 2016 07:00 pm
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption chief took sole responsibility on Monday for removing a top investigator, saying she “failed to meet the job requirements”, and denying the city’s leader had anything to do with the controversial move. Simon Peh Yun-lu, head of […]
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Russia: All Russian officials & politicians may face anti-corruption polygraph tests
Jul 12, 2016 06:30 pm
The Russian public chamber has proposed a nationwide program in which civil servants, politicians and even civil activists undergo universal polygraph tests to detect and purge those previously engaged in corruption schemes. “We propose that these tests are taken by […]
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China: Former China Telecom chairman to face prosecution for corruption
Jul 12, 2016 06:00 pm
Former China Telecom chairman Chang Xiaobing will face prosecution, with the Communist Party wrapping up an internal anti-graft investigation against him. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Monday that Chang allegedly took bribes, interfered in the anti-graft agency’s […]
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United States: Banker Sitting in U.S. Prison Has a Most Incredible Tale to Tell
Jul 12, 2016 05:30 pm
Eugene Gourevitch, a 39-year-old Berkeley-educated finance whiz, spends his days working in the library in a federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama. He’s serving a five-year sentence for wire fraud related to insider trading. How Gourevitch ended up as an inmate […]
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