The Department of Justice (DOJ) won’t prosecute German-based Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch) for export violations under the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP).
It is the first corporate declination under the CEP, which credits self-disclosure and self-remediation. The CEP, issued in March, credits corporations that self-disclose misconduct, cooperate with the DOJ investigation and mitigate the underlying causes of the misconduct. The CEP reflects the Trump Administration’s shift toward lighter enforcement of some types of white-collar crime, as well as more clarity on how self-disclosures can lead to declinations.
