Monitorships and Leniency Agreements in Latin America
From Fraud Eats Strategy by Scott Moritz
August 26, 2025 · 33 min · Season 5 · Episode 60
About this episode
The episode discusses the rise of compliance measures such as monitorships and leniency agreements in Latin America, highlighting their potential long-term benefits despite initial resistance from organizations.
Petrobras, Braskem, Odebrecht, Stericycle and other U.S. style compliance and regulatory actions continue to be more commonplace across Latin America in the past decade. Indeed, there has been a tectonic shift in the implementation of leading industry compliance program overhauls following significant investigations and prosecutions. Some of those matters have included the use of legal tools such as monitorships and deferred prosecution agreements. While organizations on the receiving end of what is sometimes referred to in Latin America as a “leniency agreement” and/or the imposition of a compliance monitor may not welcome these measures or the costs. And yet done correctly, they can deliver long term benefits that over time may lead to improved profitability, transparency, stronger ethical culture and improved morale.
People in this episode
Host: Scott Moritz
Topics covered
- compliance
- regulatory actions
- Latin America
- leniency agreements
- monitorships
- ethical culture
Keywords
- compliance
- regulatory actions
- Latin America
- leniency agreements
- monitorships
- ethical culture
- profitability
- transparency
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Petrobras, Braskem, Odebrecht, Stericycle
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