Compliance lessons from Wood Group’s $177M global bribery settlement
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-06-28T17:37:00
John Wood Group reached a $177 million settlement with authorities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, concluding legacy bribery and corruption investigations into Amec Foster Wheeler companies.
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