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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal
Mega-Scandal: Foreign Bribery
Description: This list shows cases in which companies paid penalties of $25 million or more for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Penalty Total since 2000: $19,594,025,958
Number of Penalty Records: 110
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
| Top 10 Current Parent Companies | Total Penalty $ | Number of Records |
| Goldman Sachs | $2,921,088,000 | 2 |
| Ericsson | $1,265,000,000 | 3 |
| Societe Generale | $860,000,000 | 1 |
| Mobile TeleSystems PJSC | $850,000,000 | 2 |
| Siemens | $800,000,000 | 2 |
| Alstom | $772,290,000 | 1 |
| Telia Company AB | $731,603,972 | 2 |
| Olympus | $646,000,000 | 1 |
| KBR | $579,000,000 | 2 |
| TechnipFMC | $536,000,000 | 2 |
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the current parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Ericsson | Ericsson | telecommunications | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2019 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $520,000,000 |
| Ericsson | Ericsson | telecommunications | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2019 | SEC | $539,000,000 |
| Olympus Corp. of the Americas | Olympus | electrical and electronic equipment | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2016 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $646,000,000 |
| Gunvor S.A. | | | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2024 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $661,698,515 |
| Mobile TeleSystems PJSC | Mobile TeleSystems PJSC | telecommunications | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2019 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $750,000,000 |
| Alstom S.A. | Alstom | miscellaneous energy products and systems | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2015 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $772,290,000 |
| Societe Generale S.A. | Societe Generale | financial services | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2018 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $860,000,000 |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | Goldman Sachs | financial services | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2020 | SEC | (*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $1,006,000,000 |
| Glencore International A.G. and Glencore Ltd. | Glencore | financial services | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2022 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | (*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $1,185,000,000 |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | Goldman Sachs | financial services | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2020 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $2,921,088,000 |
