Lawsuit Overview
June 23, 2014 (Shareholders Foundation) - An investors, who currently holds shares of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (NYSE:OZM) filed a lawsuit against directors of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group over alleged breaches of fiduciary duties.
The plaintiff alleges that certain directors of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group violated bribery laws by loaning $234 million to help finance a investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group currently faces a lawsuit over alleged securities laws violations. The plaintiff claims that between February 9, 2012 and April 25, 2014 defendants in that lawsuit made allegedly false and/or misleading statements and/or allegedly failed to disclose that Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC violated relevant anti-bribery laws by accepting an investment from the Libyan Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, that Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC loaned $234 million to help finance two ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ), that beginning in 2011, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC received subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission( SEC ) and the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) in connection with the transactions mentioned above, and that as a result of the above, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC’s financial statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On March 18, 2014, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC disclosed that in the beginning in 2011, and from time to time thereafter, it have received subpoenas from the SEC and requests for information from the U.S. Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) in connection with an investigation involving the FCPA and related laws. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC said that the investigation concerns an investment by a foreign sovereign wealth fund in some of its funds in 2007 and investments by some of its funds, both directly and indirectly, in a number of companies in Africa.