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by company- Google LLC €1.19bn 34 % · 1 case
- Google €890m 25 % · 1 case
- Apple €500m 14 % · 2 cases
- Apple Distribution International Limited; Apple Operations International Limited; Apple Inc. €150m 4 % · 1 case
- Cadence Design Systems Inc. €120.1m 3 % · 1 case
- Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. (TIGO Guatemala) €102.1m 3 % · 1 case
- Apple Inc., Apple Distribution International Ltd, Apple Italia S.r.l. €98.6m 3 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €93.2m 3 % · 20 cases
- Telefónica Venezolana C.A. €79.1m 2 % · 1 case
- Orange SA €50m 1 % · 1 case
- 71 more€273m
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1 case
8 Nov 2024 Telefónica Venezolana C.A.Telefónica Venezolana: USD 85.26m for bribery in a state currency auction €79.1m
The Venezuelan subsidiary of Spain's Telefónica S.A. entered into a DPA and pays a penalty of USD 85,260,000. To be allowed to exchange bolívares for US dollars in a state currency auction in 2014, it had two suppliers pay about USD 28.9 million to an intermediary, part of which went to Venezuelan officials, and covered the cost through overpriced equipment purchases from those suppliers. It received more than USD 110 million from the auction, over 65% of the funds awarded. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Purchases with conspicuous price mark-ups can fund bribery – pricing anomalies must be part of every compliance review.
Inflated purchase prices with suppliers as a hidden channel for bribes
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division, Fraud Section; USAO Southern District of New York)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Verschwörung zum Verstoß gegen die Anti-Bribery-Vorschriften (Criminal Information, Southern District of New York)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation (initially diminished by late production of records) and remediation were credited: disciplinary action including dismissals, an independent compliance function with a Chief Compliance Officer, review of all non-standard pricing transactions, tighter third-party controls; 20% reduction.
- Published
- 8 Nov 2024
Original amount 85,260,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Nov 2024.
- Telefónica Venezolana to Pay Over $85M to Resolve Foreign Bribery Investigation (DOJ, 08.11.2024) Press release of an authority
- Telefónica Venezolana To Pay Over $85 Million To Resolve Foreign Bribery Investigation (USAO SDNY, 08.11.2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link