The essentials of anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance programs
Organizations at risk of anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) violations should implement risk-based ABAC compliance programs.
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Recent guilty plea demonstrates that criminal liability for corruption may extend to corporate officers
Corporate criminal liability in Canada was expanded in 2013 following the R. v. Pétroles Global decision, which established that the “directing minds” of the corporation may be seated in the persons of middle management for purposes of establishing criminal liability of the company.
Individual defendant receives three-year sentence for Canadian corruption conviction
On December 17th, 2018, Quebec’s Superior Court of Justice sentenced Yanaï Elbaz, a former senior manager of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), to a three-year prison term for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which SNC-Lavalin secured a $1.3 billion contract to build MUHC.
