Defendant Name:
Analogic Corporation
Defendant Type:
Public Company
SIC Code:
3812
CUSIP:
03265720
Initial Case Details
Legal Case Name
In the Matter of Analogic Corporation and Lars Frost
First Document Date
21-Jun-2016
Initial Filing Format
Administrative Action
File Number
3-17305
Allegation Type
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
AAER
3784
Violations Alleged
Additionally,
Lars Frost is alleged to have caused Analogic Corporation's violation of Sec 13(b)(2)(A) of the Exchange Act.
Lars Frost is alleged to have caused Analogic Corporation's violation of Sec 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act.
Resolutions
First Resolution Date
21-Jun-2016
Headline Total Penalty and Disgorgement
$11,502,962
Related Documents:
2016-126
21-Jun-2016
Press Release--Administrative Proceeding
SEC Charges Medical Device Manufacturer with FCPA Violations
On June 21, 2016, the SEC announced that "Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer Analogic Corp. and its wholly-owned Danish subsidiary have agreed to pay nearly $15 million to settle parallel civil and criminal actions involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. And SEC investigation found that Analogic's Danish subsidiary, BK Medical ApS, engaged in hundreds of sham transactions with distributors that funneled about $20 million to third parties, including individuals in Russia and apparent shell companies in Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Seychelles."
34-78113
21-Jun-2016
Administrative Proceeding
Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings, and Imposing a Cease-and-Desist Order
On June 21, 2016, the SEC instituted settled cease-and-desist proceedings against Analogic Corporation and Lars Frost. According to the SEC: "This matter concerns violations of the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ('FCPA') by Analogic, a medical device manufacturer headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts, and by Lars Frost, a citizen and resident of Denmark and the former Chief Financial Officer of Analogic's wholly-owned Danish subsidiary, BK Medical ApS ('BK Medical'), which sells ultrasound equipment. From at least 2001 through early 2011, BK Medical participated in hundreds of highly suspicious transactions at its distributors' direction which posed a significant risk of bribery or other improper conduct. The suspicious transactions involved BK Medical's distributor in Russia, as well as, to a lesser extent, its distributors in Ghana, Israel, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Vietnam. The transactions routinely involved fictitious invoices issued by BK Medical at inflated prices, overpayments to BK Medical from the distributors against the inflated invoices, and subsequent payments by BK Medical out of the distributors' excess funds to unknown third parties all over the world for unknown reasons. In short, for at least nine years, BK Medical acted as a conduit for its distributors to funnel money to parties, and for reasons, unknown to BK Medical. Approximately $20 million flowed through BK Medical from these distributors, with over $16 million from BK Medical's Russian distributor." The SEC stated that it was not imposing a civil penalty on Analogic because BK Medical, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Analogic, entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice under which BK Medical paid a $3,402,000 fine.
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