Bribe, Swindle or Steal

Nicola Bonucci, Director for Legal Affairs at the OECD, reflects on 20 years of the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention.

David Green, the Director of the SFO, talks about the SFO's priorities, changes he has made as Director and what's next for him.

Our "spotlight" series takes a closer look at one country.  Today,  Paul  Holden  of Corruption Watch talks about Zuma's presidency, the Gupta family and the bribery scandal in South Africa.

Will Fitzgibbon, an ICIJ reporter on the Paradise Papers team, describes this latest tranche of documents.  He discusses the corrosive nature of offshore accounts, even in those cases where they are technically legal.

Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb while reporting on corruption in Malta.  Roberto Montalto, her lawyer, describes her courage, her work and the loss of a Maltese institution.

Jack Ewing of the New York Times in Frankfurt discusses his excellent book, "Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal," and the outrageous fraud and cover-up uncovered by a handful of WVU students.

Walt Pavlo describes how his organization helps offenders prepare for their incarceration and discusses challenges—and a few surprises--within the prison system.

Walt Pavlo discusses the accounting fraud at MCI that led to his two-year prison sentence, his book "Stolen Without a Gun: Confessions from inside history's biggest accounting fraud,"and his second career with Prisonology

New York Times reporter Ian Urbina discusses his excellent but grim series about crime and impunity on the high seas.

Bradley Hope of the Wall Street Journal describes his team's in-depth and on-going research into Malaysia's 1MDB scandal- and where Leonardo DiCaprio fits in.

Martina Vandenberg discusses the misery caused by trafficking and slavery, including in our own neighborhoods, and describes the work her organization is doing to support those able to break free.

Peter Humphrey and his wife were well-respected compliance professionals active in China when they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for two years.

Diana Henriques drew on her years of financial journalism and extraordinary access to the title character to write the definitive book about Bernie Madoff.  It was turned into an HBO movie earlier this year starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Diana, playing herself.

Before becoming chairman of Transparency International, Jose  Ugaz  was the "ad hoc state attorney" (special prosecutor) who brought down Peruvian President Fujimori and his head of intelligence,  Vladimiro  Montesinos .

Hui Chen describes her role as the DOJ's Compliance Consultant, what companies should focus on and why she resigned. @HuiChenEthics

Rob Leventhal of the US State Department discusses the tools available to the US Government to make the lives of kleptocrats more difficult.

Peter Elkind tells the story of the Enron financial scandal; it's a timely refresher on that corporate disaster as the Trump Administration rolls back financial regulations.

Join two legal experts for a conversation about compliance challenges in China.

Amanda DeBusk walks us through the goal and nature of US sanctions, and the penalties for getting this important issue wrong.

Bloomberg's Michael Kavanagh describes his research into the extensive holdings of the Kabila family in the DRC.

Michelle Gavin, formerly on the NSC and ambassador to Botswana, discusses corruption on the continent and how the west is perceived.

Sarah Chayes describes her time in Afghanistan and discusses the link between corruption and national security.

Adam Davidson of the New Yorker joins the podcast to talk about his research into the baffling Trump Hotel deal in Baku.

Ike Sorkin, lawyer to both Madoff and Belfort, talks us through their criminal financial schemes and how regulatory safeguards failed.

Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital describes the brazen fraud and violence of Putin's Russia.