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€24.8mTotal of monetary amounts

€24.8mLargest single case: Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. €24.8m 100 % · 1 case

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28 Sep 2023 Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.Clear Channel Outdoor: 26.1 million USD – gifts and hospitality for Chinese officials USABribery of public officials €24.8m

From at least 2012 to 2017, the Chinese majority-owned subsidiary Clear Media bribed officials with expensive gifts and hospitality and used sham intermediaries and false invoices to fund concealed consultants in order to obtain advertising space, for example at bus stops; the payments were booked as entertainment, cleaning and customer development expenses. Despite repeated warnings from internal audit, adequate controls were lacking until 2019; Clear Channel paid 16,355,567 USD in disgorgement, 3,760,920 USD in interest and a civil penalty of 6 million USD (a total of 26,116,487 USD).

What organisations can take from it

Internal audit findings on entertainment and consultancy costs in high-risk markets must lead to immediate controls.

Relevance to training and awareness

Gifts and hospitality for public officials; correct booking

Authority / court: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Area of law: Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
Legal basis: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Anti-Bribery, Books and Records, Internal Accounting Controls)
Action: Fine
Status of proceedings: final
Sector: Media and online platforms

Original amount 26,116,487 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Sep 2023.

Sources

SEC Charges Clear Channel Outdoor with FCPA Violations Relating to China Subsidiary (28.09.2023) Press release of an authority
SEC Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings, In the Matter of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., Release No. 34-98615 (28.09.2023) Decision of an authority

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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