September 6, 2018
Posted September 7, 2018
A real estate broker for Colliers International Group, Inc. has agreed to pay $225,000 to settle FCPA charges of attempting to bribe a foreign official over the sale of a commercial building in Vietnam. The broker, Joohyun Bahn, had paid the bribe to a middleman, bypassed internal accounting controls, created fake documents and messages, and lied to executives about the supposedly impending sale, which caused the company to falsely record revenue. Unfortunately for Bahn, the sale never went through because the middleman had kept the bribe for himself. SEC
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