February 26, 2020

Airbus-Part 3, Jonathan Armstrong on the UK-SFO Enforcement

16 minutes

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Compliance in London; Cecilia Fellouse-Guenkel-Secretary General, The Circle of Compliance and Tom Fox-the Compliance Evangelist. In today’s Episode 3, Jonathan Armstrong considers the UK’s Serious Fraud Office role in the enforcement involving Airbus.

Highlights include:

The transparency in the UK-Deferred Prosecution Agreement process allows greater information to for the compliance professional.

What are the key differences in the UK and US DPA process?

The breadth and scope of the UK investigation.

The UK-DPA is not the end of the story as there may well be significant individual enforcement actions going forward.

What does Airbus mean for the new SFO style of anti-bribery enforcement action?

Resources

Cordery Compliance Client Alert on the Airbus enforcement action here.

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