APPENDIX 13. A proposal for a United States Department of Justice foreign corrupt practices act leniency policy (Robert W. Tarun and Peter P. Tomczak), excerpted from a law review article first published in 47 am. crim. l. rev 153 (2010)

AuthorRobert W. Tarun
Pages627-633
APPENDIX 13
A Proposal for a United
States Department of Justice
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Leniency Policy1
Robert W. Tarun and Peter P. Tomczak
Excerpted from a law review article first published in
47 Am. Crim. L. Rev 153 (2010)
1. LENIENCY BEFORE AN INVESTIGATION HAS BEGUN–
PART A
Leniency (i.e., non-prosecution) shall be granted to a corporation and its affiliates, and
certain corporate employees and agents, reporting improper payment(s) to a foreign
official before an investigation has begun, if the following eight conditions are met:
(a) At the time the corporation comes forward and reports the improper
payment activity, the Fraud Section has not received credible informa-
tion from any other source about the improper payment activity being
reporting by the corporation;
(b) The corporation elects within sixty (60) days after receiving and
promptly verifying preliminary allegations of improper payments to
conduct a thorough internal investigation, to disclose fully all mate-
rial underlying facts and the results of the investigation to the DOJ
and/or SEC, and to fully cooperate with the agency(ies);
(c) The corporation, upon its discovery of the improper payment activity
being reported, takes steps to reasonably investigate and, thereafter,
take prompt and effective action to terminate the activity;
(d) In reporting improper payment activity, the corporation with can-
dor and completeness discloses all material underlying facts and pro-
vides full, continuing and complete cooperation to the Fraud Section
throughout the investigation;
(e) The confession of improper payment activity is truly a corporate act, as
opposed to isolated confessions of individual executives or employees;
(f) If possible, the corporation makes restitution to injured parties –
depending on whether the corporation was active or passive and
whether the host or foreign country prosecutes the officials who par-
ticipated in the acts of bribery;
(g) The corporation has not been named in an FCPA enforcement pro-
ceeding, including a deferred prosecution agreement or a non-prose-
cution agreement, in ten (10) years; and
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