Whistleblower News From The Inside — February 19, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

VimpelCom Limited and Unitel LLC enter into $795 million foreign bribery resolution — Amsterdam-based VimpelCom Limited, the world’s sixth-largest telecommunications company and an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its wholly owned Uzbek subsidiary, Unitel LLC, admitted to a conspiracy to make more than $114 million in bribery payments to a government official in Uzbekistan to enable them to operate in the Uzbek telecommunications market.  DOJ

 Spanish police arrest sixth person in ICBC money laundering case — Spanish police have arrested a sixth worker at the Madrid branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a source close to the investigation said on Friday, after five directors were detained in a raid on Wednesday.  Reuters

 Phoenix VA whistleblower may get job back — A letter from the U.S. Senate is calling on the head of the VA to put whistleblower Brandon Coleman back to work.  After Coleman spoke out about the mishandling of suicides in January 2015 he was put on leave and his drug rehab program to help veterans was shut down.  ABC

President of cancer charities accused of fraud relinquishes control —  In one of the largest cases of its kind, the FTC last year accused James T. Reynolds Sr. and others of engaging in a “massive, nationwide fraud” involving “sham charities.”  Reynolds, who has now agreed to relinquish control of the businesses, is accused of spending donations on six-figure salaries and luxury vacations.  ABC