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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 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.

Bribery and corruptionGifts, hospitality and benefits Clear all filters
8cases from 2 jurisdictions
€4.97bnTotal of monetary amounts (6 cases with an amount)
€4.75bnLargest single case: Purdue Pharma L.P.
€19.6mMedian per case with an amount

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  1. USA 6 cases 75 % · €4.97bn
  2. EU 2 cases 25 % · €60,000

What for?

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  1. Other 6 cases 75 % · €217.1m
  2. Fine 2 cases 25 % · €4.76bn

Who?

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  1. Chemicals and pharmaceuticals 5 cases 63 % · €4.96bn
  2. Financial services and insurance 1 case 13 % ·
  3. Manufacturing and mechanical engineering 1 case 13 % · €9m
  4. Other 1 case 13 % · €60,000

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Q2 20251€177.8m
Q3 20251€60,000
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Q2 20262€4.76bn
Q3 20262€27.5m

8 cases

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10 Sep 2026 Dompé U.S. Inc.Dompé U.S.: 32 million USD – Medicare patients’ co-payments covered via foundations USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €27.5m

From 2018 to 2021, the pharmaceutical manufacturer allegedly used two patient assistance foundations to fund Medicare beneficiaries’ co-payments for its drug Oxervate in order to promote its sales. Following a self-disclosure, Dompé paid 32 million USD.

What organisations can take from it

Benefits flowing to customers via foundations or other third parties remain benefits provided by the company – donations to patient assistance programmes require strict independence.

Relevance to training and awareness

Benefits to patients and customers via third parties

Authority / court
U.S. Department of Justice / U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Mitigating circumstances
Self-disclosure.

Original amount 32,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Sep 2026.

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10 Aug 2026 Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Inc.Veloxis: over 46 million USD – luxury trips, dinners and gifts for transplant teams USAGifts, hospitality and benefits Other

From 2016 to 2023, Veloxis provided transplant professionals with expensive meals and alcohol, trips and stays at luxury resorts, gifts and consultancy fees without consideration, and paid specialty pharmacies concealed remuneration in order to promote prescriptions and purchases of the immunosuppressant Envarsus XR. The company entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with a criminal payment of more than 10 million USD, is paying 34.45 million USD under civil law (21,211,251 USD to the federal government, 13,238,749 USD to states) and a penalty of 1.55 million USD under the Sunshine Act (Open Payments) – the highest to date – totalling over 46 million USD.

What organisations can take from it

Invitations and gifts to decision-makers must not only be limited but also fully reported to transparency registers.

Relevance to training and awareness

Gifts, travel and hospitality for healthcare professionals; transparency reporting

Authority / court
U.S. Department of Justice / U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Anti-Kickback Statute; False Claims Act; Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Open Payments)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Sources

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14 May 2026 Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Takeda: 13.7 million USD – speaker fees and luxury meals for prescribing physicians USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €11.7m

From 2014 to 2020, Takeda allegedly selected physicians specifically for its speaker programme for the antidepressant Trintellix and provided them with fees and meals at expensive restaurants to promote prescriptions; some participants attended the same event several times without any educational benefit. Takeda paid 13,670,921 USD.

What organisations can take from it

Speaker programmes need a demonstrable educational purpose – repeated attendance and expensive hospitality turn them into inducements.

Relevance to training and awareness

Invitations, hospitality and fees for healthcare professionals

Authority / court
U.S. Department of Justice / U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Employees
10,000 or more

Original amount 13,670,921 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 14 May 2026.

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28 Apr 2026 Purdue Pharma L.P.Purdue Pharma: 5.544 billion USD penalty – including kickbacks via the speaker programme USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €4.75bn

Following its 2020 guilty plea, the opioid manufacturer was sentenced in Newark to a criminal fine of 3.544 billion USD (asserted in the insolvency proceedings) and forfeiture of 2 billion USD; up to 1.775 billion USD can be credited against the forfeiture if Purdue emerges from insolvency as a public benefit company. Purdue had deceived the DEA and paid kickbacks to prescribers via its speaker programme and to an electronic health records platform in order to increase opioid prescriptions.

What organisations can take from it

Fee programmes for customers who drive revenue can become part of a criminal overall scheme – with consequences that threaten the company’s existence.

Relevance to training and awareness

Speaker fees and benefits for prescribing physicians

Authority / court
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Anklage: U.S. Department of Justice)
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Verschwörung zum Betrug der USA und zur Verletzung des Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; zwei Fälle Verschwörung zur Verletzung des Anti-Kickback Statute (Schuldbekenntnis vom 24.11.2020)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Culpability
intentional

Original amount 5,544,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Apr 2026.

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8 Aug 2025 Ronny Pecik (Unternehmer)Diversion: businessman Pecik pays around 60,000 EUR over benefits for a Finance Ministry secretary general AustriaGifts, hospitality and benefits €60,000

In the CASAG set of proceedings, the businessman was charged with having granted a head of cabinet and later secretary general at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) benefits worth around 17,000 EUR (use of luxury cars, tailor-made suits) in order to obtain goodwill in official business. After he accepted responsibility, the proceedings were concluded with final effect by way of diversion (discontinuation without a conviction) against payment of around 60,000 EUR.

What organisations can take from it

Even benefits in kind to ministry officials, such as the use of cars or clothing, can be punishable as "Anfüttern" (grooming officials) – rules on gifts must also apply to owners.

Relevance to training and awareness

Gifts and benefits in kind to civil servants (grooming officials)

Authority / court
Wirtschafts- und Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft (WKStA); Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
§ 307a StGB (Vorteilszuwendung); Diversion nach StPO
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Other
Culpability
intentional
Liability of senior managers
Personal responsibility of the businessman Ronny Pecik (diversion without a finding of guilt).
Published
8 Aug 2025
Sources

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28 Apr 2025 Gilead Sciences, Inc.Gilead: 202 million USD – speaker programmes with fees, luxury meals and travel USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €177.8m

Gilead paid physicians who spoke at or attended events on its HIV medicines fees, meals and travel expenses to promote prescriptions; high prescribers received hundreds of thousands of dollars, and events took place at luxury restaurants. The court-approved settlement of 202 million USD contains extensive admissions of fact.

What organisations can take from it

Selecting speakers by prescription volume turns continuing education into bribery – selection criteria and hospitality limits must be documented.

Relevance to training and awareness

Fees and hospitality at professional events

Authority / court
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court (S.D.N.Y.)
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Employees
10,000 or more
Published
29 Apr 2025

Original amount 202,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Apr 2025.

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25 Nov 2024 Commerzialbank MattersburgCommerzialbank Mattersburg: indictment over paid-for police Christmas parties, diversions AustriaGifts, hospitality and benefits Other

According to the indictment by Austria's Central Public Prosecutor's Office for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (WKStA), the bank, at the instigation of a former member of the management board, paid for the Christmas parties of three police stations over several years in order to influence the way they performed their duties. An indictment (Strafantrag) for granting benefits to exert influence was filed against the former board member; four mostly senior police officers were offered diversion for accepting benefits to exert influence (one probation period, two monetary payments, one further probation period), and the proceedings against two other former board members were discontinued.

What organisations can take from it

Sponsoring celebrations or events for authorities you deal with is not harmless goodwill – it can be punishable as grooming officials (Anfüttern).

Relevance to training and awareness

Invitations and celebrations for authorities and the police

Authority / court
Wirtschafts- und Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft (WKStA); Landesgericht Eisenstadt
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
§ 307b StGB (Vorteilszuwendung zur Beeinflussung), § 306 StGB (Vorteilsannahme zur Beeinflussung)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Culpability
intentional
Liability of senior managers
Indictment against a former member of the bank's management board; proceedings against two other former board members discontinued.
Published
25 Nov 2024
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10 Sep 2024 Deere & CompanyDeere pays 9.9 million USD: Wirtgen Thailand bribed the air force and the highways authority USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €9m

From 2017 to 2020, the acquired subsidiary Wirtgen Thailand provided public officials, including officials of the Royal Thai Air Force and the Department of Highways, with cash, sham consultancy fees, luxurious "factory visit trips", meals and entertainment, and also engaged in commercial bribery. Deere is paying 4,343,401 USD in disgorgement, 1,086,954 USD in interest and a penalty of 4.5 million USD.

What organisations can take from it

After acquisitions, integrate subsidiaries swiftly into the compliance programme and controls – otherwise old practices such as luxury trips for customers live on.

Relevance to training and awareness

Travel, hospitality and entertainment for public officials

Authority / court
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
FCPA Buchführungs- und interne Kontrollvorschriften (Sections 13(b)(2)(A)/(B) Exchange Act)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
Employees
10,000 or more
Culpability
intentional
Liability of senior managers
According to the SEC, senior regional managers who have since left the company were involved (not named).
Published
10 Sep 2024

Original amount 9,930,355 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Sep 2024.

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