Beleaguered Swedish telecoms maker Ericsson has shaken up its compliance operation once again, naming Becky Rohr, current head of investigations, head of compliance as well. Jan Sprafke, appointed compliance chief six months ago, will be leaving the company.
Ms. Rohr was previously Vice President, Anti-Corruption and Global Trade, Ethics & Compliance Office at Hewlett Packard, and held numerous roles in civil and criminal fraud prosecution in the Justice Department. She will keep her office in Washington, DC.
Last March the company signed a deal with the Justice Department acknowleging breaches of the deferred prosecution agreement it entered into for corruption in Djibouti, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kuwait, as well as failure to report and disclose an illicit alliance with the Islamic State in Iraq uncovered by press reports in 2022.
Ericsson entered a guilty plea regarding previously deferred charges relating to conduct prior to 2017. The plea agreement called for $207 million in additional fines and an extension of the independent compliance monitor until June 2024. [9506]
In 2013 Ericsson disclosed that it was cooperating with U.S. authorities investigating bribery allegations, resulting in a $1 billion bribery settlement in 2019. That settlement contained no mention of Iraq.
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