Amber Flags by Robert Maxwell

06/06/2017

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02/02/2017

Good article as to why DPA's are the preferred route for corporates...

Big corporations love deferred and non prosecution agreements. If you have any doubts about this, take a peek north of the border. There, a giant engineering multinational — SNC Lavalin — is engaged in a campaign to import deferred agreements into Canada. Why? Well, for one thing, the Royal Canadian...

26/01/2017

ENI is under the undivided attention of the US authorities, come what may in the Italian bribery trial,

Saipem, a 30%-owned subsidiary of ENI, is under investigation in the US, in Italy and in Algeria for alleged bribes of $275mn supposedly pa...

19/01/2017

Alstom may yet face stiff financial penalties in the UK and Brazil of over $1.3bn. It currently has a provision of just $110m to cover that risk.

At the end of 2014 Alstom agreed to pay a $772mn penalty for criminal charge s to the US authorities; Brazilian prosecutors are thought to...

18/01/2017

https://www.facebook.com/robert.maxwell.3363/posts/1449330955098475

18/01/2017

Open Source Intelligence is not just about finding actionable intelligence, but about thinking where the relevant information could be: because today that information exists somewhere.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington defines Open Source Intelligence as being “publicly available informatio...

17/01/2017

Imagine: Alstom actually had a guide on "How" to bribe politicians and executives!

One of the more alarming items to have been dug up by the Brazilian press as it investigated the price fixing scandal which pointed the fin...

16/01/2017

When confronted by evidence of corporate bribery SBM Offshore management opted for "containment" and distortion of the truth

The reaction: internal investigation, "containment" and "shredding of evidence" The inside story on the corporate reaction to news of e...

12/01/2017

Open Source Intelligence techniques captured the key item behind the collapse of this bank four months beforehand.

What follows is a real example of the power of forward-looking OSINT monitoring: in this case it helped to save one global bank the tidy su...

11/01/2017

In last week’s post I discussed how massive scale, multi-lingual content capture can be achieved, enabling investigators to use OSINT te...

10/01/2017

Effective use of Open Source Intelligence techniques enables one to put together a fairly clear picture of who did what, who paid what, and who was at the receiving end of the company's generosity - I use Angola as an example below. Verification is a key issue, hence independent evidence or proof is important.

"What the butler saw ( and heard )" Agatha Christie's whodunits invariably rotate around what someone (often the butler) had seen , and...

09/01/2017

There are five key bribery and corruption cases that I will be monitoring that should see resolution this year, and #2 on the list after Al...