Whistleblower News From The Inside -- March 23, 2018
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Britain’s SFO to recover $6 million from Chad oil corruption case – British prosecutors will recover 4.4 million pounds ($6.2 million) from a corruption case in which a Canadian energy company bribed Chadian diplomats in North America, the Serious Fraud Office said on Thursday following a court ruling. Canada’s Griffiths Energy, using a front company called “Chad Oil”, bribed senior diplomats at the Chadian Embassy to the United States with discounted share deals and payments in return for oil contracts in the central African nation, the SFO said. The recovered money will be transferred to Britain’s Department for International Development, which will invest in projects in Chad that will benefit the poor. Reuters
‘Opportunity lost’: call for review of Australia’s whistleblower laws – A Coalition-chaired Senate committee wants the Turnbull government to “explicitly” promise to review its draft corporate whistleblower protection laws if they clear parliament, after hearing concerns that the current draft bill is “inadequate” and an “opportunity lost”. And Labor members of the committee say the draft bill falls “far short” of the whistleblower reforms called for by a landmark parliamentary inquiry last year, noting what they described as “widespread and varied” concerns flagged by experts about the legislation. The Sydney Morning Herald
The Trump Administration’s War on Climate Policy: A View from a Whistleblower Who is Speaking Out – Joel Clement is the Interior Department executive-turned-whistleblower who said the Trump administration retaliated against him for publicly disclosing how climate change affects Alaska Native communities. In a speech in Maine, he said he has no regrets blowing the whistle, saying “keeping my voice [was] more important than keeping my job. I have not found another job yet. I have vast contacts inside the agency and outside. I do believe I can be a strong voice to resisting what the [Interior Secretary Ryan] Zinke team is doing.” Maine