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DOJ Determines that Indiana-Based Medical Device Manufacturer Breached FCPA Deferred Prosecution Agreement
On June 6, the DOJ filed a status report with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stating that an Indiana-based medical device manufacturer had violated its 2012 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) related to FCPA charges. Specifically, the DOJ stated that it notified the medical device manufacturer on April 15, 2016 that “the government had determined that [it] had breached the DPA based on the conduct in Mexico and Brazil and based on [its] failure to implement and maintain a compliance program as required by the DPA.”
The medical device manufacturer had settled FCPA charges with the DOJ and SEC in 2012 related to the company’s conduct in Argentina, Brazil, and China. As previously reported in the FCPA Scorecard, the company’s DPA had been extended twice since 2012: once in March 2015 because the company had discovered additional potential FCPA violations in Brazil and Mexico, and again in March 2016. According to the DOJ, the company and the DOJ are in discussions to resolve the matter without a trial.