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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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- Energy and utilities €226.5m 57 % · 2 cases
- Construction and real estate €62.3m 16 % · 5 cases
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering €45.3m 11 % · 4 cases
- Steel and metals €25.8m 7 % · 1 case
- Other €18.4m 5 % · 1 case
- Telecoms, IT and software €16.6m 4 % · 2 cases
- Healthcare €1.77m 0 % · 1 case
- Chemicals and pharmaceuticals €96,540 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €15.9m |
| 2023 | 5 | €245m |
| 2024 | 1 | €30,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | €68.1m |
| 2026 | 5 | €67.8m |
17 cases
19 Mar 2026 Colas Rail Asia Sdn Bhd (Colas-Gruppe)Colas Rail Asia: CJIP of 29.7 million EUR over bribery in metro contracts in Malaysia €29.7m
The Malaysian subsidiary of Colas Rail paid large, undocumented sums via intermediaries in connection with public contracts for urban rail lines in Kuala Lumpur (Kelana Jaya extension, MRT2). Following an internal investigation, Colas Rail self-reported the matter in 2017; the CJIP (Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, a French deferred prosecution agreement) provides for a public interest fine of 29,745,974 EUR and a three-year compliance programme monitored by the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) (costs of up to 1.9 million EUR).
Undocumented payments to intermediaries on foreign projects must be stopped early by the finance and compliance functions – self-reporting after an internal investigation is rewarded.
Intermediaries and consultants in public tenders
- 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 (CJIP); Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Self-report (criminal complaint filed by Colas Rail on 31 May 2017) following an internal forensic investigation.
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 19 Mar 2026
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP COLAS RAIL ASIA Press release of an authority
- Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public – COLAS RAIL ASIA (17.03.2026) Decision of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public (Verzeichnis) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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19 Mar 2026 Balt USA LLC (Balt-Gruppe)Balt USA: CJIP in France over payments to a hospital physician €1.77m
In parallel with the US declination, the PNF concluded a CJIP with the US subsidiary of the French medical technology manufacturer for 1,765,493 EUR (after crediting the US disgorgement) and a three-year AFA compliance programme. The case arose from Balt SAS's voluntary self-disclosure of 22 May 2023 concerning conduct at the acquired company Blockade Medical.
Acquisitions require anti-corruption due diligence on the target company – otherwise legacy misconduct by its management becomes a group risk.
Benefits to hospital physicians, integration of acquired companies
- 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 (CJIP); aktive und passive Bestechung von Amtsträgern
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Voluntary self-disclosure to the PNF and the DOJ; coordinated resolution with crediting.
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 19 Mar 2026
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP BALT USA Press release of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice – Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public (Liste) Official register or notice
- CJIP Société BALT USA LLC (17.03.2026) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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6 Mar 2026 Fleurette Properties LtdCommodities holding Fleurette: 25.8 million EUR strafbeschikking over bribery in Congo €25.8m
According to the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM), the top holding company of a mining, oil and gold group, which was based in the Netherlands from 2010 to 2017, participated together with others in bribing public officials of the DR Congo in order to obtain licences for cobalt and copper mines. On 6 March 2026, the OM issued a strafbeschikking (prosecutorial penalty order) imposing a fine of 25.8 million EUR, which Fleurette accepted.
In the commodities sector, licences and concessions are the main target for bribery – holding companies share liability for payments made by their subsidiaries.
Award of licences in the commodities sector, payments to public officials
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM); Ermittlungen FIOD Anti-Corruptie Centrum
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Buitenlandse ambtelijke omkoping (Wetboek van Strafrecht); OM-strafbeschikking
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 10 Mar 2026
- Geldboete Fleurette Properties Ltd wegens omkoping in Congo Press release of an authority
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18 Feb 2026 Périphériques et Matériels de Contrôle SAS (Groupe Carrus)Betting terminal manufacturer PMC: CJIP over payments to an official in Mali €499,150
From 2008 to 2011, the Paris-based supplier of betting and gaming terminals made unjustified payments of 78,972 EUR to an official of a majority state-owned company in Mali, with which it had a supply contract awarded without a tender. The case was triggered by a report from TRACFIN (the French financial intelligence unit). Public interest fine of 499,150 EUR (including 335,000 EUR already seized) and a three-year AFA compliance programme.
Managers of state-controlled companies are also public officials – even small private payments to them create a risk of criminal liability for medium-sized companies.
Payments to heads of state-owned companies abroad
- 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 (CJIP); Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger und Geldwäsche
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 18 Feb 2026
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP PMC Press release of an authority
- Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public – Périphériques et Matériels de Contrôle SAS Decision of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public (Verzeichnis) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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10 Feb 2026 Strukton Civiel Projecten B.V. und Strukton International B.V. (Strukton-Gruppe)Construction group Strukton pays 10 million EUR out-of-court settlement over bribery on the Riyadh Metro €10m
To secure a share in the Riyadh Metro project, around 31 million USD was paid between 2013 and 2021 to an agent representing a high-ranking member of the Saudi royal family; the agent payments were understated to the export credit insurer Atradius. Strukton accepted a transaction (out-of-court settlement) of 10 million EUR.
Commissions to agents with ties to ruling families carry the highest risk – and false statements to export credit insurers constitute a second offence.
Agent commissions and false statements to export credit insurers
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Buitenlandse ambtelijke omkoping und valsheid in geschrift (Wetboek van Strafrecht); Transactie nach Art. 74 Sr
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation from mid-2023; compliance programme in place since 2017; the employees involved are no longer with the company.
- Published
- 30 Mar 2026
- Strukton betaalt hoge transactie van 10 miljoen euro na corruptieonderzoek Press release of an authority
- OM Functioneel Parket: Transactieovereenkomst Calisto (10.02.2026) Decision of an authority
- College van procureurs-generaal: Beslissing hoge transactie onderzoek Calisto (09.02.2026) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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3 Sep 2025 SURYS SAS (Gruppe Imprimerie Nationale)Hologram manufacturer SURYS: CJIP of 18.4 million EUR in the Ukrainian passport case €18.4m
From 2013, SURYS supplied security holograms for Ukrainian passports to the state-owned company Polygraph via an interposed Estonian company; the investigation (following a request for mutual legal assistance from Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, NABU) concerned misappropriation of public funds, bribery of foreign public officials and money laundering. Public interest fine of 18,363,007 EUR, plus 3,770,000 EUR in damages to the Ukrainian state and a three-year AFA compliance programme.
If a state customer insists on an interposed trader without any discernible added value, treat this as a red flag for misappropriation and bribery.
Interposed trading companies and sales agents
- 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 (CJIP); Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger, Geldwäsche
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 3 Sep 2025
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP SURYS Press release of an authority
- Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public – SURYS (08.07.2025) Decision of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public (Verzeichnis) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Jun 2025 IDEMIA France (vormals Oberthur Technologies)Paris prosecutor: CJIP with IDEMIA France for €15.54m over foreign bribery €15.5m
IDEMIA France, formerly Oberthur Technologies, undertook to pay a public interest fine of 15,541,130 EUR in a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) with the Paris public prosecutor. The investigation opened in 2013, including for bribery of foreign public officials and money laundering, concerned contracts between the Angolan central bank (BNA) and Oberthur Technologies from its former banknote business; validation took place on 27 June 2025.
Contracts with state bodies such as central banks require particularly careful scrutiny of intermediaries and payment flows.
Bribery risks in contracts with state central banks
- Authority / court
- Parquet de Paris (Procureure de la République); Validierung durch das 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, blanchiment)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 27 Jun 2025
- Communiqué de presse de la Procureure de la République de Paris, 27 juin 2025 (CJIP IDEMIA France) Press release of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Liste der Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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19 Jun 2025 Exclusive Networks Corporate SASIT distributor Exclusive Networks: CJIP of 16 million EUR following a whistleblower report €16.1m
In 2021, a whistleblower reported payments by subsidiaries in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and India to contractual partners; the investigation concerned private-sector bribery and bribery of foreign public officials. The CJIP provides for a public interest fine of 16,074,511 EUR (including 1 million EUR already seized) and a three-year AFA compliance programme.
A functioning whistleblowing system uncovers foreign risks – companies should investigate reports themselves before the authorities do.
Payments to sales partners in Asia, whistleblowing systems
- Authority / court
- Parquet national financier (PNF); Validierung durch das Tribunal judiciaire de Paris
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale (CJIP); Bestechung im privaten Sektor und ausländischer Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 19 Jun 2025
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP Exclusive Networks Corporate Press release of an authority
- CJIP société Exclusive Networks Corporate (16.06.2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 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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11 Feb 2025 KLUBB France SASVehicle body builder KLUBB France: CJIP over an ambulance contract in Algeria €558,024
Following a referral from the public prosecutor's office in Rennes, the PNF investigated bribery of foreign public officials in the performance of a contract for the supply of ambulances to Algeria. KLUBB France is paying a public interest fine of 558,024 EUR and is undergoing a three-year AFA compliance programme.
Medium-sized exporters are also in the spotlight: companies supplying foreign authorities need a robust anti-corruption programme under Sapin II (the French anti-corruption law).
Export contracts with state bodies
- 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 (CJIP); Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.
- Published
- 11 Feb 2025
- Communiqué de presse du procureur de la République financier – CJIP KLUBB France Press release of an authority
- CJIP KLUBB France SAS (10.02.2025) Decision of an authority
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17 Dec 2024 BAM International B.V.OM: penalty order for BAM International over misrecorded facilitation payments €30,000
The Openbaar Ministerie (OM, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) imposed a penalty order of 30,000 EUR on BAM International B.V. for forgery (valsheid in geschrift): on a completed project in Africa, so-called facilitation payments had been made to officials in connection with a tax dispute, and not all of them were recorded transparently in the accounts. The company had discovered the payments in its own investigation and reported them itself; the amount reflects the OM guideline on self-reporting, cooperation and internal investigation. The OM dropped separate proceedings for bribery of public officials on other projects for lack of evidence.
Even tolerated small payments to officials must be recorded completely and transparently; self-reporting and own investigation reduce the penalty.
Facilitation payments and transparent bookkeeping
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM), Functioneel Parket
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Valsheid in geschrift (Urkundenfälschung nach niederländischem Strafrecht); Strafbefehl des OM
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Mitigating circumstances
- Self-reporting, own investigation and cooperation with the investigation.
- Published
- 17 Dec 2024
- OM: Strafbeschikking en sepot in onderzoek naar BAM International B.V. Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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4 Dec 2023 a French engineering and design firmPNF: CJIP with an engineering firm for €14.6m over suspected foreign bribery €14.6m
The engineering firm undertook to pay a public interest fine of 14,600,000 EUR under a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) concluded on 29 November 2023 and validated on 4 December 2023. The investigation, including for bribery of foreign public officials, stemmed from a criminal complaint through which the company itself had passed audit reports and an anonymous letter to the judicial authorities in 2013.
Internal audit findings and anonymous tip-offs about bribery should be investigated immediately; self-reporting does not, however, rule out a later sanction.
Handling internal indications of bribery, and self-reporting
- 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
- Construction and real estate
- Published
- 4 Dec 2023
- Communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier, 4 décembre 2023 (CJIP ADP Ingénierie) Press release of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Liste der Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 4 Dec 2025 · Direct link
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4 Dec 2023 a French industrial manufacturer and its groupPNF: CJIP with an industrial manufacturer and its group for €13.37m over foreign bribery €13.4m
The manufacturer undertook, in a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) with the Parquet national financier (PNF, French national financial prosecutor), to pay a public interest fine of 13,373,000 EUR; in addition, the group must implement a three-year compliance programme under the supervision of the Agence française anticorruption (AFA, French anti-corruption agency), the costs of which the manufacturer bears up to 500,000 EUR. It was based on an investigation including for bribery of foreign public officials; validated on 4 December 2023.
Anyone doing business with foreign public officials needs a robust anti-corruption programme – otherwise the authority imposes one, supervision costs included.
Sapin II anti-corruption programme under official supervision
- 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
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Published
- 4 Dec 2023
- Communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier, 4 décembre 2023 (CJIP Seves Group / Sediver) Press release of an authority
- Agence française anticorruption: Affaire Groupes Seves et Sediver Official register or notice
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28 Jul 2023 a Hungarian pharmaceutical companyPharmaceutical company: 37 million HUF fine over doctors' fees and excess hospitality €96,540
The Országos Gyógyszerészeti és Élelmezés-egészségügyi Intézet (OGYÉI, Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition) fined a Hungarian pharmaceutical company 37,000,000 HUF and prohibited continuation of the infringements, because the company had in numerous cases granted prescribing doctors unlawful financial benefits through fee contracts – for example for role-plays used to train its own sales representatives, specialist articles for a company-branded promotional publication, promotional lectures, and paid lectures given by heads of department to their own staff. In addition, hospitality exceeded the statutory per-head limit in four cases at its own professional events, support enabling doctors to attend two international professional events was not reported, and there were shortcomings concerning warning symbols in promotional material, the handing out of samples and donation records. The decision was issued in new proceedings after the Fővárosi Törvényszék (Budapest-Capital Regional Court) had annulled an earlier 2020 decision for inadequate reasoning on the amount of the sanction, while upholding the legal assessment of the fee contracts.
Fee contracts with prescribing doctors need a genuine professional service, separate from sales promotion and paid at a fair rate – otherwise they count as a prohibited benefit.
Fee contracts, lectures and hospitality for doctors in pharmaceutical marketing
- Authority / court
- Országos Gyógyszerészeti és Élelmezés-egészségügyi Intézet (OGYÉI; Rechtsnachfolger NNGYK)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
- Legal basis
- Gyftv. (Gesetz Nr. XCVIII/2006) § 14 Abs. 1, 2 und 10, § 11/B Abs. 2, § 19 Abs. 2 lit. c und d; EüM-Verordnung 3/2009 § 7 Abs. 1 lit. a, § 10 Abs. 3
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- Published
- 28 Jul 2023
Original amount 37,000,000 HUF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Jul 2023.
- OGYÉI, endgültige behördliche Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
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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
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17 May 2023 a French construction company and a property developer of the same construction groupPNF: CJIP with a construction company and a property developer for €7.96m €7.96m
The two companies of a French construction group undertook, in a CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement), to pay a public interest fine totalling 7,964,000 EUR and to implement a three-year compliance programme under the supervision of the Agence française anticorruption (French anti-corruption agency), the costs of which the construction company bears up to 1,337,000 EUR. The investigation opened in 2021 concerned, among other things, favouritism in public procurement (favoritisme) and active and passive bribery of public officials; validated on 17 May 2023.
Contacts with public contracting authorities during tender procedures must be clearly regulated and documented to avoid allegations of favouritism.
Bribery and favouritism in public construction contracts
- 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 (favoritisme, corruption d'agent public)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Published
- 17 May 2023
- Communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier, 17 mai 2023 (CJIP Bouygues Bâtiment Sud-Est / Linkcity Sud-Est) Press release of an authority
- Agence française anticorruption: Affaire Bouygues bâtiment sud-est et Linkcity sud-est Official register or notice
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30 Nov 2022 a European aerospace groupPNF: second CJIP with an aerospace group for €15.86m over suspected bribery €15.9m
In a second convention judiciaire d'intérêt public (CJIP, French deferred prosecution agreement), following the one of 2020, the group undertook to pay a public interest fine of 15,856,044 EUR to the Parquet national financier (PNF, French national financial prosecutor). It concerns payments to sales intermediaries in sales campaigns in Libya and Kazakhstan and through a further intermediary, which the prosecutor mostly regards as possible bribery of foreign public officials and, in one helicopter deal in Kazakhstan, as possible bribery of a French elected official; the amount corresponds to the fees paid to the intermediaries in Libya and Kazakhstan. The agreement, concluded on 17 November 2022, was validated by the court on 30 November 2022.
Commissions paid to sales intermediaries need a documented service in return and documented checks, otherwise sanctions may follow even years later.
Risks of commissions paid to sales intermediaries in international business
- 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; Art. 435-3, 433-1 Code pénal
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 30 Nov 2022
- Agence française anticorruption: Affaire Airbus SE (2022), CJIP validiert am 30.11.2022 Official register or notice
- Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public zwischen dem Procureur de la République financier und Airbus SE (2022) Decision of an authority
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