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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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per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €4.07m |
| 2023 | 1 | €82.1m |
| 2024 | 2 | €229.4m |
| 2025 | 1 | €143.3m |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
5 cases
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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5 Aug 2024 a Swiss commodities groupSwiss Attorney General: summary penalty order against commodities group over bribery in Congo €138.9m
The group failed to take all reasonable organisational precautions to prevent the bribery of foreign public officials by a business partner in connection with the acquisition of minority stakes in two mining companies in the DR Congo in 2011. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft, BA) issued a summary penalty order (Strafbefehl) imposing a fine of 2 million CHF and a compensatory claim of 150 million USD (amount converted at the ECB rate of 5 August 2024: 152,357,266 USD in total); further matters from 2007–2017 were discontinued.
Companies are also liable for bribery by business partners if they have not taken adequate due diligence and control measures.
Corruption risks posed by business partners in acquisitions of stakes
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB (Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit) i. V. m. Bestechung fremder Amtsträger; Strafbefehl
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 5 Aug 2024
Original amount 152,357,266 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 5 Aug 2024.
- Bundesanwaltschaft, Medienmitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
- Openbaar Ministerie, Nachrichten (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 5 Aug 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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27 Apr 2023 a Swiss security technology providerPenalty order: CHF 81m against security technology provider for bribery in South America €82.1m
Because of deficiencies in corporate governance, risk management and compliance, employees of a Swiss security technology provider were able to bribe public officials in connection with business in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. The Bundesanwaltschaft (BA, Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland) convicted the company by summary penalty order and imposed a fine of CHF 1,000,000 and a compensatory claim of CHF 80,000,000, CHF 81 million in total. The penalty order against the company is final because the company waived its right to object.
Anyone selling to state bodies in high-risk markets needs effective sales controls, or a large compensatory claim will follow the fine.
Bribery of foreign public officials in sales; compliance organisation
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i.V.m. Art. 322septies StGB; Ersatzforderung nach Art. 71 Abs. 1 StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 27 Apr 2023
Original amount 81,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Apr 2023.
- Bundesanwaltschaft, Medienmitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 27 Apr 2025 · Direct link
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2 Dec 2022 a Swiss services company of an electrical engineering groupSwiss Attorney General fines group company over bribery in South Africa €4.07m
From 2013 employees of an electrical engineering group set up a bribery scheme in which inflated payments to subcontractors were used to channel benefits to public officials in South Africa and win contracts for the construction of a coal-fired power station (bribes of at least CHF 1.3 million, contracts worth at least USD 200 million). By summary penalty order, the Bundesanwaltschaft (BA, Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland) convicted a Swiss services company of the group for failing to take all reasonable organisational measures to prevent this, fined it CHF 4,000,000 (statutory maximum CHF 5 million) and ordered it to pay procedural costs of CHF 50,000. The BA waived a compensatory claim because the group had already paid USD 104 million to South Africa in 2020.
Payments to subcontractors in high-risk countries must be checked for genuine consideration and reasonableness, or the company is liable for missing safeguards.
Bribery through subcontractors and third parties in foreign business
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i.V.m. Art. 322septies StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation taken into account as mitigating; no compensatory claim because of a USD 104 million settlement payment already made to South Africa in 2020.
- Published
- 2 Dec 2022
Original amount 4,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 2 Dec 2022.
- Bundesanwaltschaft, Medienmitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 2 Dec 2024 · Direct link