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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by company- Anonymised companies €616.3m 71 % · 3 cases
- Trafigura Beheer B.V. €213.2m 25 % · 2 cases
- Freepoint Commodities LLC €17.8m 2 % · 1 case
- Paprec Group €17.5m 2 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €316.9m |
| 2023 | 1 | €208.9m |
| 2024 | 2 | €108.3m |
| 2025 | 3 | €230.8m |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
7 cases
28 Mar 2025 Trafigura Beheer B.V.Trafigura Beheer: leniency agreement with CGU and AGU for BRL 435.4m €69.9m
Trafigura Beheer B.V. entered into a leniency agreement with the Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU, Office of the Comptroller General) and the Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU, Office of the Attorney General) in which it admitted paying undue advantages to public officials and using front persons to conceal its interests. It allegedly pays BRL 435,410,672.26: BRL 153,710,689.11 within ten days (the conversion of USD 26,829,346; under its agreement with the US Department of Justice on a fine of USD 80,488,040, this part of the US fine may be offset by the payment to the Brazilian authorities) and BRL 281,699,983.15 (the conversion of USD 49,169,165.53) as the remaining balance. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
In corruption cases involving several countries, double payments can be avoided through coordinated agreements with all the authorities involved.
Payments to public officials and use of intermediaries
- Authority / court
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) und Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Lei nº 12.846/2013, Art. 5 I und III, Art. 16; Lei nº 8.429/1992; Decreto nº 11.129/2022
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Coordination with the US proceedings so that part of the Brazilian payment can be credited against the US fine; obligation to improve the integrity programme under CGU monitoring for 36 months.
Original amount 435,410,672.26 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Mar 2025.
- Acordo de Leniência CGU/AGU – Trafigura Beheer B.V. (Processo 00190.100002/2022-21, SEI 3569333) Decision of an authority
- CGU: Acordos de leniência celebrados (Liste mit Unternehmen und Beträgen) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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11 Feb 2025 Paprec GroupPNF: CJIP with Paprec Group for €17.54m after investigation into waste contracts €17.5m
Paprec Group undertook, in a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement), to pay a public interest fine of 17,538,990 EUR, including 4,828,000 EUR already seized, and to implement a three-year compliance programme under the supervision of the Agence française anticorruption (French anti-corruption agency) (costs up to 1,000,000 EUR). The background is a judicial investigation including for bribery, favouritism in procurement, money laundering and unlawful agreements concerning contracts and concessions of French local authorities for waste treatment; validated on 11 February 2025.
Companies that depend on municipal contracts must systematically review contacts with decision-makers and tender processes for bribery and favouritism risks.
Integrity in municipal contracts and concessions
- Authority / court
- Parquet national financier (PNF); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 11 Feb 2025
- Communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier, 11 février 2025 (CJIP Paprec Group) Press release of an authority
- Agence française anticorruption: Affaire Paprec group Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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31 Jan 2025 Trafigura Beheer B.V.Swiss Federal Criminal Court (Bundesstrafgericht) convicts Trafigura of bribery in Angola €143.3m
Between 2009 and 2011, more than 4 million EUR and more than 600,000 USD were paid to an official in Angola in order to promote ship chartering and bunkering business of the Trafigura group. The court convicted the then parent company for lacking rules on the supervision of intermediaries, imposing a fine of 3 million CHF and a compensatory claim (Ersatzforderung) of 145,634,268 USD (amount converted at the ECB rate of 31 January 2025: 148,933,982 USD in total). It was the first judgment of the Federal Criminal Court on corporate criminal liability for foreign bribery; it is not final.
In Switzerland, companies are liable if their organisation fails to prevent bribery – and the compensatory claim can exceed the fine many times over.
Payments via intermediaries to employees of state-owned oil companies
- Authority / court
- Bundesstrafgericht (Strafkammer); Anklage durch die Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 StGB i. V. m. Art. 322septies StGB (Bestechung fremder Amtsträger); SK.2023.49
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 31 Jan 2025
Original amount 148,933,982 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 31 Jan 2025.
- Bundesstrafgericht: Verurteilung einer juristischen und drei natürlicher Personen wegen Bestechung fremder Amtsträger (SK.2023.49) Court press release
- TRAFIGURA BEHEER BV und drei natürliche Personen vor Bundesstrafgericht angeklagt Press release of an authority
- Bundesstrafgericht, Dispositiv SK.2023.49 vom 31.01.2025 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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14 Nov 2024 Freepoint Commodities LLCFreepoint Commodities: leniency agreement worth BRL 131.25m over bribery €17.8m
The US company Freepoint Commodities LLC admitted, in a leniency agreement with the CGU and the AGU, to having paid undue advantages to public officials through intermediaries (Art. 5 I and III Lei 12.846/2013) and allegedly pays BRL 108,710,739.68 as a fine plus disgorgement. According to Annex III, BRL 60,919,037.14 is the fine payable to the Union (after a 67% reduction) and BRL 47,791,702.54 is disgorgement. Damages to Petrobras of BRL 22,542,907.62 are set out only in the text. The agreement also stated a total of BRL 131,253,647.32 (USD 22,744,839.85); the two centavos by which that total exceeds the fine, the disgorgement and the damages are not smoothed. If the company resumes business in Brazil within five years, it must adapt its compliance programme to Brazilian law and report to the CGU. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Companies that win business through intermediaries must control their payments to officials – otherwise the company itself is liable.
Bribery of public officials through intermediaries
- Authority / court
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) und Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Lei 12.846/2013, Art. 5 I und III, Art. 6 I, Arts. 16, 17 und 19 I; Lei 8.429/1992; Decreto 11.129/2022
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Mitigating circumstances
- Credit was given for remediation of damage (1%), cooperation (1.5%) and voluntary admission (2%); no reduction was granted for a compliance programme.
- Liability of senior managers
- Tolerance or knowledge by management was applied as an aggravating factor at 2.5%.
Original amount 108,710,739.68 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 14 Nov 2024.
- CGU/AGU – Acordo de Leniência com a Freepoint Commodities LLC (Processo 00190.104910/2023-75) Decision of an authority
- Acordo de Leniência Freepoint – Anexo II: Demonstrativo de cálculo e valor da multa Decision of an authority
- Acordo de Leniência Freepoint – Anexo III: Demonstrativo do valor da dívida, destinação e pagamento Decision of an authority
- CGU – Acordos de leniência celebrados (Liste) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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1 Mar 2024 a Swiss commodities trading houseTrading house convicted: around 86.7 million CHF over corruption in Ecuador's oil business €90.5m
The Geneva-based commodities trading house failed to take all reasonable organisational precautions to prevent foreign public officials from being bribed on its behalf in connection with the Ecuadorian oil industry from 2013 to 2017. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (BA) – in coordination with US authorities – ordered the trading house to pay around 86.7 million CHF, of which 4.3 million CHF is a fine.
Commodities traders must scrutinise payments to intermediaries in government business without gaps – the confiscation of profits far exceeds the fine.
Payments via intermediaries to state-owned oil companies
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 StGB (Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit) i. V. m. Bestechung fremder Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 1 Mar 2024
Original amount 86,700,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Mar 2024.
- Bundesanwaltschaft, Medienmitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 1 Mar 2026 · Direct link
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28 Jun 2023 a French and a British energy engineering company of the same groupPNF: CJIP with two energy engineering companies for €208.94m €208.9m
Two companies of a former energy engineering group concluded a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) with the Parquet national financier (PNF, French national financial prosecutor) over possible bribery of foreign public officials in connection with contracts concluded in 2008 and 2009 in Ghana and Equatorial Guinea. The French company pays a public interest fine of 54,146,000 EUR and the British company 154,792,000 EUR, 208,938,000 EUR in total; the agreement was validated on 28 June 2023.
In large contracts with state energy companies, intermediaries' contacts with public officials and their relatives must be scrutinised with particular care.
Bribery of foreign public officials in major energy projects
- Authority / court
- Parquet national financier (PNF); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale (corruption d'agent public étranger)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 28 Jun 2023
- Communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier, 28 juin 2023 (CJIP Technip Energies France / Technip UK) Press release of an authority
- Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public vom 22. Juni 2023 (Technip Energies France, Technip UK) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 28 Jun 2025 · Direct link
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3 Nov 2022 a UK commodities traderUK commodities trader: around 276 million GBP in fines and confiscation for bribery to gain access to oil €316.9m
With the company's approval, agents and employees of the London oil trading division paid more than 25 million USD in bribes for preferential access to oil in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, South Sudan and Malawi. Following guilty pleas to seven counts, the court imposed fines of 182,935,392 GBP and a confiscation order of 93,479,338.95 GBP (276,414,730.95 GBP in total), plus 4,550,362 GBP in costs.
In commodities trading, access to cargoes determines profits – that is exactly where strict controls over agents and cash are needed.
Cash and agents in commodities trading
- Authority / court
- Serious Fraud Office (SFO); Southwark Crown Court
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Bribery Act 2010, s. 1 (fünf Fälle) und s. 7 (zwei Fälle); Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Confiscation)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 3 Nov 2022
Original amount 276,414,730.95 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Nov 2022.
- SFO, Fallübersicht (Entscheidung 2022) Decision of an authority
- Judiciary of England and Wales, Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Court decision
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 3 Nov 2024 · Direct link