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| Q4 2024 | 1 | €9.48m |
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1 case
18 Nov 2024 BIT Mining Ltd. (vormals 500.com)BIT Mining (formerly 500.com): USD 10m for bribing Japanese officials €9.48m
The company entered into a three-year DPA; under the guidelines USD 54 million would have been appropriate, but because of a demonstrated inability to pay a penalty of USD 10 million was agreed, of which up to USD 4 million is credited against the SEC civil penalty. From 2017 to 2019 the company, then trading as 500.com, agreed to pay about USD 1.9 million to consultants, intended to reach Japanese officials as cash, travel, entertainment and gifts, in order to win an integrated resort bid in Japan; the payments were booked as consultancy fees under sham contracts. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
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- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division, Fraud Section; USAO District of New Jersey)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Verschwörung zum Verstoß gegen die Anti-Bribery- und Books-and-Records-Vorschriften sowie Verstoß gegen die Books-and-Records-Vorschriften (Criminal Information, District of New Jersey)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Mitigating circumstances
- The penalty was capped at USD 10 million because of the company's financial condition; limited, reactive cooperation and remediation were credited (10% reduction off the bottom of the guidelines range).
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 18 Nov 2024
Original amount 10,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Nov 2024.
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link