In continuing re-evaluation of FCPA cases, DOJ ends Albemarle FCPA reporting
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Aaron Nicodemus2025-05-05T13:42:00
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended a FCPA-related non-prosecution agreement (NPA) more than a year early. This scaling back of regulatory enforcement by the federal government has been a growing trend since the start of the Trump administration.
Albemarle Corp., a North Carolina-based specialty chemicals manufacturing company, disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday in a 10-Q filing that the Department of Justice ended its three-year post non-prosecution agreement (NPA) reporting period in April.
“In April 2025, the Company concluded its non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) prior to the end of its term in recognition that the terms of the agreement had been satisfied. The non-prosecution agreement was implemented in September 2023 following the Company’s self-reporting of a matter that occurred in 2018.”
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