Billions of fake cigarettes contained in packages mimicking American made cigarettes are being sent into the United States illegally from China and they contain dangerous chemicals including lead, asbestos and other life threatening checmicals. Asbestos is a known carcinogen responsible for mesothelioma and other life-threatening respiratory diseases.The majority of illegal cigarettes come...
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Category: Foreign Fraud
Whistleblower gets $1.9 mill. of $25.5 mill. settlement for revealing customs fraud on imported furniture from China
Furniture merchant, turned whistleblower Kelly Renee Wells of Alabama, will receive nearly two million dollars for revealing revealed that larger retailers were evading import tariffs on furniture made in China by misclassifying the bedroom furniture as living room or hall furniture in order to evade ādumpingā duties. One of the companies she sued, Bassett...
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Russian Whistleblower Now Living in Fear
Being a Whistleblower in Russia Comes with Life Altering Complications
Russia will not be at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games because of a massive doping conspiracy that came to light thanks to a native whistleblower. Now, according to US News, that man is now living in exile and in fear for his life.
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DOJ Wants Companies to Report Foreign Bribery and Works to Expand FCPA
FCPA is Being Encouraged to Fight Foreign Bribery
The US Justice Department is apparently bulking up its anti-foreign bribery program. According to HETQ, the US plans to expand benefits for companies who report on any acts of foreign bribery their employees may have committed. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein...
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Kobe Steel of Japan Facing Another Major Scandal Assertion for falsifying data to U.S. about strength of metals sold here
Kobe Steel Admits to Falsifying Data in Another Blow to Japanese Businesses
Kobe, in Japan, is most well-known internationally for its luxury beef industry. But now the name of the port city may be marred in scandal.Ā The Economist reports that Kobe Steel has admitted to falsifying data regarding its aluminum, copper...
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Telecom bohemoth Telia pays $1 Billion to end S.E.C. and D.O.J. bribe probe on bribes paid to officials in Uzbekistan
Swedish telecom giant Telia will pay nearly $1 billion in penaltiesĀ settle a United States Department of Justice probe on bribes paid in Uzbekistan.Ā U.S. prosecutors described the Uzbek government official who received the bribes as "a close relative of a high-ranking government official and who exercised influence over Uzbek telecommunications industry regulators." U.S....
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Government cracking down on transshipment fraud customs violations hiding the true country of origin
On March 31, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order calling for US CUstoms and Border Protection to increase its efforts to combat customs violations. One are of major focus is now transshipment frauds which involve disguising imports of country origin in order to evade the antidumping and duties. Goods are shipped to third...
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Chinese national gets three years for trying to sell high grade carbon fiber to China
Fuyi Sun, aka āFrank,ā 53, a citizen of the Peopleās Republic of China (China), was sentenced to three years in prison for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in connection with a scheme to illegally export to China, without a license, high-grade carbon fiber, which is used primarily in aerospace...
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Retired Army colonel charged by DOJ with foreign bribery scheme on $84 mill. port in Haiti
A retired U.S. Army colonel was charged in a complaint unsealed today for his alleged role in a foreign bribery and money laundering scheme in connection with a planned $84 million port development project in Haiti. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Departmentās Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney William...
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Financial consultant sentenced to 5 years in prison in foreign bribe scheme to European Bank official
Dmitrij Harder, former head of Chestnut Consulting Group, Inc. and a Russian naturalized German citizen and permanent resident alien in the U.S. was sentenced to 5 years in prison in a $3.5 million bribery scheme paid to a European Banking official, who has a joint UK Russian citizenship. The indictment said that Harder made...
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