I thought it was bad in 2009 when the SEC charged a company’s FCPA compliance officer with an FCPA violation relating to bribes paid to foreign officials, but this is worse. Reuters reports (via FCPA Blog) that in Russia, a court has ordered the arrest of Alexander Bokov on charges of extorting $46 million from a businessman. Bokov’s job? He happens to be a top anti-corruption police chief, and “head of a Moscow-based bureau tasked with fighting organised crime” across the country. Ooof.
