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Former IRS staffer who managed IT contracts pleads guilty to bribery charges

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conducted two bribery schemes over four years in his capacity as a computer engineer supervising IT subcontracts for the IRS, according to the DOJ. The first began in October 2018, when Thukral sought cash payments from the owner of an unnamed company working on a subcontract that he oversaw. Satbir Thukral, 62, of Germantown, Md.,

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Interviews with Our Editors: In Conversation with Datuk Sundra Rajoo, Director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC)

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During my previous tenure as the Director of AIAC from 2010-2018, one of the pivotal moments was the rebranding of the Regional Centre of Arbitration Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL) to Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) in May 2010 symbolising the Centre’s regional forward-looking growth.

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Enforcement of Foreign Awards in the UAE: Significant Progress Achieved

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The Law: Enforcement Procedures and Conditions A key change was introduced to the procedure for the enforcement of foreign awards in 2018. In December 2018, the Implementing Regulations of the Old CPL were issued through Ministerial Cabinet Resolution No. 57/2018 (“ Regulations ”) introducing new procedures.

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FAR Council Issues Interim Rule Outlining Procedures Relating to Excluded Covered Articles and Sources

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This FAR rule implements the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 and the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) final rule for complying with exclusion or removal orders. Government to mitigate risks.

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Improving climate resilience in flood-prone Assam, India

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In the past, regions that were slow to ask for assistance were left behind, and authorities lacked the capacity to understand if spending meets the needs of the most vulnerable, or whether it is helping build resilience to cope with future floods.

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Arbitrators’ Duty to Disclose under Brazilian Law: The Case of Government Attorneys Seating as Arbitrators

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Background As reported here , the underlying arbitration was brought in 2018 by pension fund Fundação Petrobras de Seguridade Social (“Petros”) against Mosaic Fertilizantes P&K LTDA (“Mosaic”), under the auspices of Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (“CBMA”).

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Establishing Procurement as a Competitive Advantage

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Then look at Sprint , where the handset division came up with the idea to effectively create their own marketplace for used handsets, configuring their sourcing product to run mass volumes of global forward auctions on used handsets to optimize the price received, generating over $1B in revenue in 2018.