Financial Transparency Coalition

QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's state prosecutor, Diego Garcia, said Wednesday his office is studying whether to proceed with legal action in the U.S. against Chevron Corp. (CVX) in a case that stems from claims brought by indigenous groups against the oil company.

Gerald Green and Patricia Green, Los Angeles-area film executives, were found guilty late last Friday of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering laws of the United States, as well as substantive violations of the FCPA and U.S. money laundering laws in relation to a sophisticated bribery scheme that enabled the defendants to obtain a series of Thai government contracts, including valuable contracts to manage and operate Thailand’s yearly film festival.

SHANGHAI — Police here have detained a former employee of a Coca-Cola bottling plant, whom they accused of corruption and bribery.

LOS ANGELES — A filmmaking couple devised an intricate system of bribes to Thai officials in order to land lucrative projects such as the Bangkok International Film Festival, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday during opening statements of their trial.