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In re HONEYWELL

summary

Honeywell International Inc. violated the FCPA by using intermediaries to pay millions in bribes to Brazilian and Algerian officials to secure contracts with Petrobras and Sonatrach, resulting in a SEC cease-and-desist order requiring $81.2 million in disgorgement and interest, with a net payment of $42.4 million to the U.S. Treasury after offsets.

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Honeywell International Inc. admitted to violating the FCPA’s anti-bribery, books and records, and internal controls provisions through bribery schemes in Brazil and Algeria, where its subsidiaries paid over $10 million in illicit payments disguised as commissions to secure contracts with Petrobras and Sonatrach. The SEC ordered Honeywell to disgorge $64.7 million in ill-gotten gains plus $16.5 million in prejudgment interest, totaling $81.2 million, with a $38.7 million credit for payments made to Brazilian authorities, resulting in a net payment of $42.4 million to the U.S. Treasury. Honeywell avoided a civil penalty due to a prior $39.6 million criminal fine imposed by the DOJ on its subsidiary UOP and agreed to implement comprehensive compliance reforms.

narrative

Honeywell International Inc. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by engaging in bribery schemes in Brazil and Algeria through its subsidiaries, Honeywell UOP and Honeywell Belgium, which used intermediaries to pay millions in illicit payments disguised as consulting commissions to secure contracts with Petrobras and Sonatrach. In Brazil, UOP paid approximately $10.4 million to a local agent to bribe Petrobras officials, generating $61.5 million in illicit profits, while in Algeria, Honeywell Belgium routed $75,000 through a Monaco-based intermediary via shell entities, falsifying records and bypassing internal controls. The SEC found that Honeywell’s books and records were inaccurately maintained and its internal accounting controls were inadequate to detect or prevent the misconduct. As part of a settled cease-and-desist order, Honeywell agreed to disgorge $64.7 million in ill-gotten gains and pay $16.5 million in prejudgment interest, totaling $81.2 million, with a $38.7 million credit applied for prior payments to Brazilian authorities, leaving a net payment of $42.4 million due to the U.S. Treasury within 30 days. Honeywell avoided a separate civil penalty because its subsidiary UOP had already paid a $39.6 million criminal fine to the DOJ, and the company committed to implementing comprehensive compliance reforms addressing anti-bribery controls, recordkeeping, and internal accounting systems.

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Scheme
fcpa (100%)
Disgorgement
$64,672,563
Classified fcpa(confidence 100%). No EDGAR filing fingerprint (criminal/DOJ-side scheme). detection rule →
Statutes
SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT
Parties
honeywell international inc.honeywell process solutionshoneywell uopPetrobrasSonatrach
Keywords
honeywellagentmonaco agentuopbrazil agentexchangepetrobrascommissionbrazilhoneywell belgiummonacohpssonatrachpaymentsecurities exchange

Extracted insights

Dollar amounts 21
  • $39621.38B $39,621,375 million ≥$1B
  • $425.00M $425 million $100M–$1B
  • $348.00M $348 million $100M–$1B
  • $81.16M $81,158,193 $10M–$100M
  • $64.67M $64,672,563 $10M–$100M
  • $61.55M $61,554,213 $10M–$100M
  • $42.45M $42,445,977 $10M–$100M
  • $38.71M $38,712,216 $10M–$100M
  • $33.90M $33,895,456 $10M–$100M
  • $16.49M $16,485,630 $10M–$100M
  • $12.00M $12 million $10M–$100M
  • $10.40M $10.4 million $10M–$100M
Entities 5
  • company honeywell international inc. ×2
  • company honeywell process solutions
  • person honeywell uop
  • company Petrobras
  • company Sonatrach
Triples 6
  • Commission institutes cease-and-desist proceedings Honeywell International Inc.
  • Honeywell International Inc. submitted Offer of Settlement the Commission
  • Commission determined to accept Honeywell's Offer of Settlement
  • Honeywell International Inc. admitted jurisdiction of the Commission
  • Honeywell UOP offered as much as $4 million a Brazilian official to win a contract with Petrobras
  • Honeywell Process Solutions paid money an Algerian government official to secure a contract amendment with Sonatrach
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
Before the 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
 
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 
Release No. 96529 / December 19, 2022 
 
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING ENFORCEMENT 
Release No. 4368 / December 19, 2022 
 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING 
File No. 3-21255 
 
 
CORRECTED 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 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I. 
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it   appropriate that 
cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 21C of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), against Honeywell International Inc.  
(“Honeywell” or “Respondent”). 
II. 
In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Honeywell has submitted an Offer 
of Settlement (the “Offer”) which the Commission has determined to accept.  Solely for the 
purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the 
Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, Respondent admits the Commission’s 
jurisdiction over it   and the subject matter of   these proceedings, and consents to the entry of this 
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 (“Order”), as 
set forth below.
 
In the Matter of 
 
HONEYWELL 
INTERNATIONAL INC. 
 
Respondent. 

III. 
On the basis of this Order and Honeywell’s Offer, the Commission finds
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 that: 
SUMMARY 
1. This matter concerns violations of the anti-bribery, books and records, and 
internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) by 
Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”), in connection with bribery schemes in Brazil 
and Algeria.  In Brazil, Honeywell’s U.S. wholly-owned subsidiary, Honeywell UOP 
(“UOP”), which, with the assistance of an intermediary, offered as much as $4 million to a 
Brazilian official to win a contract with the Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petróleo 
Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”).  In Algeria, employees of the Honeywell Process 
Solutions (“HPS”) business unit, with the assistance of an intermediary, paid money to an 
Algerian government official to secure a   contract amendment with La Société Nationale pour 
la Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des 
Hydrocarbures (“Sonatrach”), the Algerian state-owned oil company.  Honeywell’s books 
and records were not accurately maintained in connection with the schemes and it failed to 
have sufficient internal accounting controls in place to detect or prevent the misconduct. 
RESPONDENT  
2. Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”), incorporated in Delaware, is a 
multinational manufacturing and technology company headquartered in Charlotte, North 
Carolina.  Honeywell’s shares are registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) of 
the Exchange Act and trade on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol “HON.”  At 
the time of the relevant transactions, Honeywell operated through three  business segments:  (i) 
Aerospace, (ii) Automation and Control Solutions (“ACS”), and (iii) Performance Materials 
and Technologies (“PMT”).  Honeywell Process Solutions (“HPS”) is one of Honeywell’s 
business units that at the time reported to Honeywell through ACS. 
OTHER RELEVANT ENTITIES 
3. Honeywell UOP (“UOP”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell with 
offices in Des Plaines, Illinois.  UOP reported to Honeywell through the PMT business segment 
and at all relevant times its books and records were consolidated into the books and records of 
Honeywell. 
4. Honeywell S.A. Belgique (“Honeywell Belgium”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary 
of Honeywell with offices in Diegem, Belgium.  Honeywell Belgium reported to Honeywell 
through the HPS business unit, and at all relevant times its books and records were consolidated 
into the books and records of Honeywell. 
5. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”) is an integrated energy 
                                                           
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  The findings herein are made pursuant to Respondent's Offer of Settlement and are not binding on any other 
person or entity in this or any other proceeding. 

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company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The Brazilian government owns 
approximately 50.26% of Petrobras’s common shares with voting rights, and the Brazilian 
Economic and Social Development Bank controls an additional 9.87% of Petrobras’s common 
shares.  Petrobras’s common and preferred stock is registered with the Commission pursuant to 
Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and trades on the New York Stock Exchange in the forms of 
ADRs under the symbols “PBR” and “PBR.A,” respectively. 
6. La Société Nationale pour la Recherche, La Production, le Transport, la 
Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures  (“Sonatrach”) is Algeria’s 
national state-owned oil company, headquartered in Algiers, Algeria.   
7. Brazil Agent is a small oil and gas consulting firm located in Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil.  Brazil Agent, through its owner and director, acted as a consultant to UOP, and was an 
agent of Honeywell, the “issuer,” as that term is used in the FCPA.  
8. Monaco Agent was a Monaco-based company that acted as an intermediary and 
consultant in the oil and gas industry.  The Monaco Agent acted as a consultant to a Honeywell 
subsidiary, and was an agent of Honeywell, the “issuer,” as that term is used in the FCPA. 
FACTS 
UOP and the Petrobras Scheme in Brazil 
9. In 2008 and 2009, Petrobras developed the Premium Refinery (“Premium”) 
project to design and construct two grassroots refineries to process heavy oil in Maranhão and 
Ceará, Brazil.  The bidding process had three phases: technical ranking, design competition, 
and commercial valuation.  At the time, Honeywell was interested in developing a stronger 
foothold in the Brazilian oil industry.   
10. In July 2009, Petrobras invited UOP and a number of other companies to 
participate in the first phase of the bidding process.  The companies submitted technical 
proposals for the project, and UOP and two other companies received the highest technical 
rankings from Petrobras to proceed to the second and third phases.   
UOP Retained the Brazil Agent to Gain Access to High-Ranking Petrobras Officials 
11. Sometime in April 2010, UOP began searching for a potential sales intermediary 
to represent it in connection with the Premium project bid.  UOP executives believed they 
needed higher-level contacts at Petrobras to succeed in the bidding process and UOP’s 
Petrobras account manager recommended the Brazil Agent, who said that he had access to 
Petrobras’s downstream director responsible for the Premium project. 
12. On May 31, 2010, UOP submitted an internal request for approval to retain the 
Brazil Agent as a consultant on the Premium bid.  The request, which called for a 3% sales 
commission or $12 million, omitted the fact that the Brazil Agent’s work would entail 
interacting with government officials and, at the direction of UOP’s regional sales director for 
Latin America, it also falsely stated that UOP had known the Brazil Agent for two years.  High-

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level executives at Honeywell, including individuals at UOP and PMT, reviewed and approved 
the request to retain the Brazil Agent in July 2010.  The Brazil Agent and UOP finalized their 
sales consultancy agreement on August 18, 2010. 
13. Sometime between May and August 2010, the Brazil Agent and UOP’s 
Petrobras account manager met with a Brazilian lobbyist with close ties to Petrobras’s 
downstream director.  At that meeting, UOP’s Petrobras account manager offered the Brazilian 
lobbyist and Petrobras’s downstream director a portion of the consulting contract (1% to 3%) in 
exchange for helping UOP win the Premium bid.  UOP’s Petrobras account manager 
subsequently met with Petrobras’s downstream director and the Brazilian lobbyist at a shopping 
mall in Rio de Janeiro and they agreed that the Petrobras director would assist UOP in the 
bidding process in exchange for a percentage of the Premium contract.   
UOP Submitted the Winning Bid Based on 
Information Provided by Petrobras’s Downstream Director 
14. UOP emerged as the lead in the design contest by mid-July 2010, at which point 
the bidders began to prepare their commercial proposals to Petrobras in connection with the 
commercial phase of the bidding process.  Only the commercial phase or phase three of the 
bidding process remained.  Beginning at or about the same time, UOP’s Petrobras account 
manager emailed his immediate supervisors with updates of meetings with Petrobras’s 
downstream director, the Brazilian lobbyist and the Brazil Agent in which he or the Brazil 
Agent tried to obtain information on what to bid to win the commercial phase of the Premium 
bidding process.  In these communications, UOP’s Petrobras account manager and his 
supervisors referred to Petrobras’s downstream director as the “King” and the Brazilian 
lobbyist as the “King’s Assistant.”  
15. UOP submitted an initial commercial bid of $425 million on July 28, 2010.  
Petrobras’s technical buyer, who was at a lower decision-making level than Petrobras’s 
downstream director, rejected UOP’s bid as far too high.   
16. On August 18, 2010, UOP’s regional sales director for Latin America emailed 
high-level UOP executives that “we are pushing the King to step up and intercede . . . .  [the 
King] is trying to pull the numbers and decisions up to his level in order to control.”  Also on 
August 18, 2010, UOP’s regional account manager for Latin America emailed UOP’s senior 
management, urging him to sign the sales consultancy agreement between the Brazil Agent and 
UOP that day and stating, “I want to get this back to [the Brazil Agent] as soon as possible, 
because we are pushing the king to step up and intercede.”  That same day, UOP submitted a 
revised commercial bid of $348 million to Petrobras based on guidance provided by the 
Petrobras downstream director. 
17. On August 24, 2010 Petrobras’s technical buyer accepted UOP’s revised bid.  
UOP also expected the Petrobras downstream director to prevent the technical buyer from 
negotiating any further reductions in the contract price until October 8, 2010, when Petrobras 
officially awarded UOP the Premium project.  
 

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UOP Paid the Brazil Agent 
18. UOP paid the Brazil Agent a total $10.4 million in commissions from a U.S. 
bank account.  In many instances, the UOP employee responsible for processing the Brazil 
Agent’s commission payments calculated the Brazil Agent’s commission using numbers from 
UOP’s invoice and neither asked for nor included an invoice from the Brazil Agent before 
forwarding the payment request to Honeywell’s accounting group.  The payment requests 
lacked relevant information and when the Brazil Agent changed his company’s name and 
wanted the commission payments routed to a Swiss bank account in the new company’s name, 
she forwarded the payment requests without question. 
19. Petrobras terminated the Premium contract due to financial and other 
difficulties, making its last payment to UOP on October 9, 2014.  UOP made its last payment to 
the Brazil Agent on November 14, 2014. 
20. In connection with the Brazil conduct above, Respondent obtained at least 
$61,554,213 in profits to be disgorged to the Commission. 
The Monaco Agent and the Sonatrach Scheme in Algeria 
21. In November 2004, Honeywell Belgium contracted with Algeria’s state-owned 
downstream oil company, La Société Nationale de Raffinage de Pétrole (“NAFTEC”), to use 
HPS products to modernize the instrumentation and control systems at NAFTEC’s Arzew 
refinery in Oran, Algeria.  In 2008, Honeywell Belgium and NAFTEC renegotiated the 
technical specifications for upgrading Zone 4 of the Arzew refinery.   
22. In July 2009, Sonatrach absorbed NAFTEC in a restructuring of the state oil 
industry.  By at least late 2009, Sonatrach and Honeywell Belgium were at a standstill on Zone 
4.  The parties could not reach agreement concerning the construction schedule and the amount 
of liquidated damages that Sonatrach believed Honeywell Belgium should pay for the delay.  
Sonatrach’s downstream development director (“the Sonatrach official”) was a key decision 
maker in the resolution of the disputed issues. 
23. Beginning in early 2009, HPS’s regional general manager for Southern Europe 
and North Africa (“the HPS Regional GM”) discussed retaining the Monaco Agent to develop 
business opportunities for HPS in Algeria.  On behalf of Honeywell Belgium, the HPS 
Regional GM signed a memorandum of understanding with the Monaco Agent on November 
26, 2010.  A representative of the Monaco Agent signed the memorandum of understanding on 
January 4, 2011.  On February 6, 2011 Honeywell initiated a due diligence review of the 
Monaco Agent, which was completed and approved on March 4, 2011. 
A Honeywell Subsidiary Used 
the Monaco Agent to Further the Scheme 
24. On February 22, 2011, the HPS Regional GM and Sonatrach reached an oral 
agreement on the liquidated damages and Zone 4 scheduling issues.  The Monaco Agent was 

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not involved in the resolution of the Zone 4 issues or on any other aspect of the Arzew refinery 
contract.  That same day, the HPS Regional GM falsely informed Honeywell Belgium’s Arzew 
refinery project manager by email that HPS had a new agreement with the Monaco Agent to 
work on Zone 4 and other sales projects in Algeria.   
25. Around this time, an executive of the Monaco Agent received a panicked phone 
call from the HPS Regional GM asking him to make a pass-through payment to a group of 
people in Europe who purportedly had helped Honeywell Belgium secure a contract with 
Sonatrach.  The Monaco Agent executive understood this to mean that the payment was 
possibly a bribe.       
26. The HPS Regional GM delegated the details of negotiating the pass-through 
payment with the Monaco Agent to his subordinate, a regional sales manager at HPS.  
According to the Monaco Agent, the HPS regional sales manager told him that the Monaco 
Agent needed only to make the pass-through payment and it would receive a lump sum 
payment from Honeywell.  The HPS regional sales manager also explained that the Sonatrach 
official was the source of Honeywell’s problems with Sonatrach.  On March 22, 2011, an email 
internal to the Monaco Agent provided contact details of a shell entity that Honeywell Belgium 
“wants us to sign with” for purposes of the pass-through payment.   
27. Sometime before April 19, 2011, the HPS regional sales manager engaged an 
individual to work unofficially to help resolve the company’s problems with Sonatrach (the 
“Consultant”).  On April 19, 2011, the Consultant, on behalf of Honeywell Belgium, paid the 
Sonatrach official $50,000 from a Swiss bank account and an additional $25,000 from the same 
Swiss bank account on December 28, 2011. 
28. During much of the spring of 2011, Sonatrach and Honeywell Belgium 
continued to dispute the Zone 4 construction schedule, which Honeywell thought was too 
aggressive.  Sonatrach also threatened to transfer the work on Zone 4 to a competitor if 
Honeywell Belgium did not agree to Sonatrach’s scheduling demands.  On June 19, 2011, after 
the first $50,000 payment to the Sonatrach official, Honeywell Belgium and Sonatrach 
executed an amendment to the Arzew refinery contract memorializing the parties’ oral 
agreement on the Zone 4 construction schedule and liquidated damages amount.   
29. Two weeks later, the Monaco Agent and a Honeywell wholly-owned subsidiary 
entered into a fictitious sales consultancy agreement whereby the Monaco Agent would 
purportedly promote sales in Algeria for a 2% to 4.5% commission without exceeding 
$500,000 per year.  The agreement made no mention of Zone 4.  Although the Monaco Agent 
never achieved certain milestones required for payments over $50,000 or obtained any new 
business for HPS as contemplated under the consulting agreement, the Monaco Agent was 
nevertheless paid $300,000. 
The Monaco Agent Repaid the Consultant Who Provided Funds 
to a Sonatrach Official Through a Series of Transactions 
30. On December 19, 2011, the Monaco Agent sent an invoice to the HPS Regional 
GM requesting a    “Lump Sum Fee of $300,000” in connection with “Sonatrach Arzew Refinery 

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– Change Order / Zone 4.”  Thereafter, the HPS Regional GM sent a copy of the invoice to 
Honeywell’s Arzew project manager, who had previously questioned the basis for the $300,000 
lump sum payment and thought it was higher than previously mentioned.  The HPS Regional 
GM reiterated that $300,000 was the agreed upon amount, and the project manager did not 
question him further or raise the issue to anyone else at Honeywell.  Shortly thereafter, the HPS 
Regional GM forwarded the invoice to finance for their review and approval. 
31. Honeywell Belgium approved the Monaco Agent’s invoice in late January 2012 
and, on February 22, 2012, Honeywell Belgium paid a lump sum of $300,000 to the Monaco 
Agent, which was falsely recorded as a sales commission.  Through a series of intermediary 
transfers, the Monaco Agent used a portion of the money from Honeywell Belgium to repay the 
Consultant who had paid the $75,000 in bribe payments to the Sonatrach official.  The series of 
intermediary transfers involved multiple U.S. correspondent banks located in New York.  The 
Monaco Agent admitted that it recorded the payments with internal codes the Monaco Agent 
sometimes used for bribe payments.   
32. In connection with the Algeria Conduct above, Honeywell obtained $3,118,350 
in profits to be disgorged to the Commission. 
LEGAL STANDARDS AND FCPA VIOLATIONS 
33. Under Section 21C(a) of the Exchange Act, the Commission may impose a 
cease-and-desist order upon any person who is violating, has violated, or is about to violate any 
provision of the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation thereunder, and upon any other person 
that is, was, or would be a cause of the violation, due to an act or omission the person knew or 
should have known would contribute to such violation. 
Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 30A 
34. The anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA, Section 30A of the Exchange Act, 
make it unlawful for any issuer with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of 
the Exchange Act, or any employee or agent of such issuer, to make use of the mails or any 
means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, 
promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of any money, or offer, gift or promise to give 
anything of value to any foreign official for purposes of influencing any act or decision of such 
foreign official in his official capacity in order to assist such issuer in obtaining or retaining 
business for or with any person.  As a result of the conduct described above Honeywell violated 
Exchange Act Section 30A. 
Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(A) 
35. The books and records provision of the FCPA, Section 13(b)(2)(A) of the 
Exchange Act, requires every issuer with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 
of the Exchange Act to make and keep books, records, and accounts, which, in reasonable 
detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer.  
As a result of the conduct described above, Honeywell violated Exchange Act Section 

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13(b)(2)(A).  
Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B) 
36. Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act requires companies with a class of 
securities registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act to devise and maintain a system of 
internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are 
executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions 
are recorded as necessary (I) to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with 
generally accepted accounting principles or any other criteria applicable to such statements, and 
(II) to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance 
with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for 
assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is 
taken with respect to any differences.  As described above, Honeywell failed to implement a 
system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that 
transactions were executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization 
and that access to assets was permitted only in accordance with management’s general or 
specific authorization.  By this conduct, Honeywell violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B). 
Honeywell’s Remedial Actions and Cooperation 
37. In determining to accept the Offer, the Commission considered remedial acts 
undertaken by Honeywell and cooperation afforded the Commission staff.  Honeywell 
cooperated in the Commission’s investigation by identifying and timely producing key 
documents identified in the course of its own internal investigation, providing the facts 
developed in its internal investigation, and making current or former employees available to the 
Commission staff, including those who needed to travel to the United States. 
38. Honeywell’s remediation included: (i) strengthening its ethics and compliance 
organization; (ii) terminating sales directors involved in the misconduct in Brazil and demoting 
an employee with significant supervisory responsibilities over the misconduct in Brazil; (iii) 
implementing a program to eliminate UOP’s use of sales agents altogether (as of 3Q 2021, 
UOP had reduced its sales agent force by two-thirds); (iv) enhancing Honeywell’s  policies and 
procedures including with respect to due diligence of third parties (including consolidating the 
due diligence process into one automated system and requiring third parties to submit quarterly 
reports and FCPA certifications); (v) improving Honeywell’s financial controls over third 
parties (including implementing digital end-to-end controls over payments to third party sales 
agents and ensuring that payments to sales intermediaries are made by wire transfer to an 
account belonging to the same party and to a bank account where the sales intermediary 
resides); and (vi) enhancing training provided to Honeywell employees and sales intermediaries 
regarding anti-corruption, controls, and other compliance issues. 
 
 
 

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39. UOP has entered into a three-year deferred-prosecution agreement with the 
United States Department of Justice in which it acknowledges criminal responsibility for 
criminal conduct relating to the findings in the Order concerning Brazil.   
DISGORGEMENT AND NON-IMPOSITION OF A CIVIL PENALTY 
40. Honeywell acknowledges that the Commission is not imposing a civil penalty 
based upon the imposition of a $39,621,375 million criminal fine (after providing a 50% offset 
for payments made to Brazilian authorities) as part of UOP’s resolution with the United States 
Department of Justice concerning the conduct in Brazil. 
41. The disgorgement and prejudgment interest ordered in paragraph IV.B is 
consistent with equitable principles, does not exceed Respondent’s net profits from its 
violations, and returning the money to Respondent would be inconsistent with equitable 
principles.  Therefore, in these circumstances, distributing disgorged funds to the U.S. Treasury 
is the most equitable alternative.  The disgorgement and prejudgment interest ordered in 
paragraph IV.B shall be transferred to the general fund of the U.S. Treasury, subject to Section 
21F(g)(3) of the Exchange Act.  
IV. 
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it  appropriate to impose the 
sanctions agreed to in Respondent’s Offer. 
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that: 
A. Pursuant to Section 21C of the Exchange Act, Respondent shall cease and 
desist from committing or causing any violations and any future violations of Sections 30A, 
13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act. 
B. Respondent is liable to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for 
disgorgement of $64,672,563 and prejudgment interest of $16,485,630, for a total of 
$81,158,193.  Respondent shall receive a disgorgement and prejudgment interest offset of up to 
$38,712,216 based on the U.S. dollar value (based on the exchange rate on the date of the 
payment) of any disgorgement paid to the Controladoria-Geral de União (“CGU”)/Advocacia-
Geral de União (“AGU”) and the Ministério Publico Federal (“MPF”) reflected by evidence 
acceptable to the Commission staff in its sole discretion, in a parallel proceeding against 
Respondent in Federal Court in Brazil.  Such evidence of payment shall include a copy of the 
wire transfer or other evidence of the amount of the payment, the date of the payment, and the 
name of the government agency to which payment was made.  To receive this offset, 
Respondent must make the above-identified payments within 90 days from the date of this 
Order.  Any amounts not paid as an offset within the specific time shall be immediately due to 
the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission.  Respondent shall, within 30 days of the entry 
of this Order, pay disgorgement of $33,895,456 and prejudgment interest of $8,550,521 for a 
total payment of $42,445,977 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for transfer to the 
general fund of the United States Treasury, subject to the Exchange Act Section 21F(g)(3).  If 

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timely payment is not made, additional interest shall accrue pursuant to SEC Rule of Practice 
600. 
C. Payment must be made in one of the following ways: 
(1) Respondent may transmit payment electronically to the 
Commission,  which will provide detailed ACH 
transfer/Fedwire instructions upon request; 
(2) Respondent may make direct payment from a bank account 
via Pay.gov  through the SEC Web site at 
http://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ofm.htm;  or 
(3) Respondent may pay by certified check, bank cashier’s check, 
or United  States postal money order, made payable to the 
Securities and Exchange  Commission and hand-delivered or 
mailed to: 
   Enterprise Services Center   
   Accounts Receivable Branch   
   HQ Bldg., Room 181, AMZ-  341 
   6500 South MacArthur Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK 73169 
 Payments by check or money order must be accompanied by a cover letter 
identifying Honeywell  as the Respondent in these proceedings, and the file number of 
these proceedings;  a copy of the cover letter and check or money order must be sent to 
Charles Cain, Unit Chief, FCPA Unit, Division of Enforcement, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 100 F St., NE, Washington, DC 20549. 
 
  
By the Commission. 
 
 
Vanessa A. Countryman 
Secretary 
 
 
 
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
Before the 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
 

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 
Release No. 96529 / December 19, 2022 

 
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING ENFORCEMENT 
Release No. 4368 / December 19, 2022 
 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING 
File No. 3-21255 

 
 

CORRECTED 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 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I. 

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that 
cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 21C of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), against Honeywell International Inc.  
(“Honeywell” or “Respondent”). 

II. 

In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Honeywell has submitted an Offer 
of Settlement (the “Offer”) which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the 
purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the 
Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, Respondent admits the Commission’s 
jurisdiction over it and the subject matter of these proceedings, and consents to the entry of this 
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 (“Order”), as 
set forth below.

 
In the Matter of 

 
HONEYWELL 
INTERNATIONAL INC. 

 
Respondent. 



III. 

On the basis of this Order and Honeywell’s Offer, the Commission finds1 that: 

SUMMARY 

1. This matter concerns violations of the anti-bribery, books and records, and 
internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) by 
Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”), in connection with bribery schemes in Brazil 
and Algeria.  In Brazil, Honeywell’s U.S. wholly-owned subsidiary, Honeywell UOP 
(“UOP”), which, with the assistance of an intermediary, offered as much as $4 million to a 
Brazilian official to win a contract with the Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petróleo 
Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”).  In Algeria, employees of the Honeywell Process 
Solutions (“HPS”) business unit, with the assistance of an intermediary, paid money to an 
Algerian government official to secure a contract amendment with La Société Nationale pour 
la Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des 
Hydrocarbures (“Sonatrach”), the Algerian state-owned oil company.  Honeywell’s books 
and records were not accurately maintained in connection with the schemes and it failed to 
have sufficient internal accounting controls in place to detect or prevent the misconduct. 

RESPONDENT  

2. Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”), incorporated in Delaware, is a 
multinational manufacturing and technology company headquartered in Charlotte, North 
Carolina.  Honeywell’s shares are registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) of 
the Exchange Act and trade on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol “HON.”  At 
the time of the relevant transactions, Honeywell operated through three  business segments:  (i) 
Aerospace, (ii) Automation and Control Solutions (“ACS”), and (iii) Performance Materials 
and Technologies (“PMT”).  Honeywell Process Solutions (“HPS”) is one of Honeywell’s 
business units that at the time reported to Honeywell through ACS. 

OTHER RELEVANT ENTITIES 

3. Honeywell UOP (“UOP”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell with 
offices in Des Plaines, Illinois.  UOP reported to Honeywell through the PMT business segment 
and at all relevant times its books and records were consolidated into the books and records of 
Honeywell. 

4. Honeywell S.A. Belgique (“Honeywell Belgium”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary 
of Honeywell with offices in Diegem, Belgium.  Honeywell Belgium reported to Honeywell 
through the HPS business unit, and at all relevant times its books and records were consolidated 
into the books and records of Honeywell. 

5. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”) is an integrated energy 

                                                           
1  The findings herein are made pursuant to Respondent's Offer of Settlement and are not binding on any other 
person or entity in this or any other proceeding. 



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company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The Brazilian government owns 
approximately 50.26% of Petrobras’s common shares with voting rights, and the Brazilian 
Economic and Social Development Bank controls an additional 9.87% of Petrobras’s common 
shares.  Petrobras’s common and preferred stock is registered with the Commission pursuant to 
Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and trades on the New York Stock Exchange in the forms of 
ADRs under the symbols “PBR” and “PBR.A,” respectively. 

6. La Société Nationale pour la Recherche, La Production, le Transport, la 
Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures  (“Sonatrach”) is Algeria’s 
national state-owned oil company, headquartered in Algiers, Algeria.   

7. Brazil Agent is a small oil and gas consulting firm located in Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil.  Brazil Agent, through its owner and director, acted as a consultant to UOP, and was an 
agent of Honeywell, the “issuer,” as that term is used in the FCPA.  

8. Monaco Agent was a Monaco-based company that acted as an intermediary and 
consultant in the oil and gas industry.  The Monaco Agent acted as a consultant to a Honeywell 
subsidiary, and was an agent of Honeywell, the “issuer,” as that term is used in the FCPA. 

FACTS 

UOP and the Petrobras Scheme in Brazil 

9. In 2008 and 2009, Petrobras developed the Premium Refinery (“Premium”) 
project to design and construct two grassroots refineries to process heavy oil in Maranhão and 
Ceará, Brazil.  The bidding process had three phases: technical ranking, design competition, 
and commercial valuation.  At the time, Honeywell was interested in developing a stronger 
foothold in the Brazilian oil industry.   

10. In July 2009, Petrobras invited UOP and a number of other companies to 
participate in the first phase of the bidding process.  The companies submitted technical 
proposals for the project, and UOP and two other companies received the highest technical 
rankings from Petrobras to proceed to the second and third phases.   

UOP Retained the Brazil Agent to Gain Access to High-Ranking Petrobras Officials 

11. Sometime in April 2010, UOP began searching for a potential sales intermediary 
to represent it in connection with the Premium project bid.  UOP executives believed they 
needed higher-level contacts at Petrobras to succeed in the bidding process and UOP’s 
Petrobras account manager recommended the Brazil Agent, who said that he had access to 
Petrobras’s downstream director responsible for the Premium project. 

12. On May 31, 2010, UOP submitted an internal request for approval to retain the 
Brazil Agent as a consultant on the Premium bid.  The request, which called for a 3% sales 
commission or $12 million, omitted the fact that the Brazil Agent’s work would entail 
interacting with government officials and, at the direction of UOP’s regional sales director for 
Latin America, it also falsely stated that UOP had known the Brazil Agent for two years.  High-



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level executives at Honeywell, including individuals at UOP and PMT, reviewed and approved 
the request to retain the Brazil Agent in July 2010.  The Brazil Agent and UOP finalized their 
sales consultancy agreement on August 18, 2010. 

13. Sometime between May and August 2010, the Brazil Agent and UOP’s 
Petrobras account manager met with a Brazilian lobbyist with close ties to Petrobras’s 
downstream director.  At that meeting, UOP’s Petrobras account manager offered the Brazilian 
lobbyist and Petrobras’s downstream director a portion of the consulting contract (1% to 3%) in 
exchange for helping UOP win the Premium bid.  UOP’s Petrobras account manager 
subsequently met with Petrobras’s downstream director and the Brazilian lobbyist at a shopping 
mall in Rio de Janeiro and they agreed that the Petrobras director would assist UOP in the 
bidding process in exchange for a percentage of the Premium contract.   

UOP Submitted the Winning Bid Based on 
Information Provided by Petrobras’s Downstream Director 

14. UOP emerged as the lead in the design contest by mid-July 2010, at which point 
the bidders began to prepare their commercial proposals to Petrobras in connection with the 
commercial phase of the bidding process.  Only the commercial phase or phase three of the 
bidding process remained.  Beginning at or about the same time, UOP’s Petrobras account 
manager emailed his immediate supervisors with updates of meetings with Petrobras’s 
downstream director, the Brazilian lobbyist and the Brazil Agent in which he or the Brazil 
Agent tried to obtain information on what to bid to win the commercial phase of the Premium 
bidding process.  In these communications, UOP’s Petrobras account manager and his 
supervisors referred to Petrobras’s downstream director as the “King” and the Brazilian 
lobbyist as the “King’s Assistant.”  

15. UOP submitted an initial commercial bid of $425 million on July 28, 2010.  
Petrobras’s technical buyer, who was at a lower decision-making level than Petrobras’s 
downstream director, rejected UOP’s bid as far too high.   

16. On August 18, 2010, UOP’s regional sales director for Latin America emailed 
high-level UOP executives that “we are pushing the King to step up and intercede . . . .  [the 
King] is trying to pull the numbers and decisions up to his level in order to control.”  Also on 
August 18, 2010, UOP’s regional account manager for Latin America emailed UOP’s senior 
management, urging him to sign the sales consultancy agreement between the Brazil Agent and 
UOP that day and stating, “I want to get this back to [the Brazil Agent] as soon as possible, 
because we are pushing the king to step up and intercede.”  That same day, UOP submitted a 
revised commercial bid of $348 million to Petrobras based on guidance provided by the 
Petrobras downstream director. 

17. On August 24, 2010 Petrobras’s technical buyer accepted UOP’s revised bid.  
UOP also expected the Petrobras downstream director to prevent the technical buyer from 
negotiating any further reductions in the contract price until October 8, 2010, when Petrobras 
officially awarded UOP the Premium project.  

 



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UOP Paid the Brazil Agent 

18. UOP paid the Brazil Agent a total $10.4 million in commissions from a U.S. 
bank account.  In many instances, the UOP employee responsible for processing the Brazil 
Agent’s commission payments calculated the Brazil Agent’s commission using numbers from 
UOP’s invoice and neither asked for nor included an invoice from the Brazil Agent before 
forwarding the payment request to Honeywell’s accounting group.  The payment requests 
lacked relevant information and when the Brazil Agent changed his company’s name and 
wanted the commission payments routed to a Swiss bank account in the new company’s name, 
she forwarded the payment requests without question. 

19. Petrobras terminated the Premium contract due to financial and other 
difficulties, making its last payment to UOP on October 9, 2014.  UOP made its last payment to 
the Brazil Agent on November 14, 2014. 

20. In connection with the Brazil conduct above, Respondent obtained at least 
$61,554,213 in profits to be disgorged to the Commission. 

The Monaco Agent and the Sonatrach Scheme in Algeria 

21. In November 2004, Honeywell Belgium contracted with Algeria’s state-owned 
downstream oil company, La Société Nationale de Raffinage de Pétrole (“NAFTEC”), to use 
HPS products to modernize the instrumentation and control systems at NAFTEC’s Arzew 
refinery in Oran, Algeria.  In 2008, Honeywell Belgium and NAFTEC renegotiated the 
technical specifications for upgrading Zone 4 of the Arzew refinery.   

22. In July 2009, Sonatrach absorbed NAFTEC in a restructuring of the state oil 
industry.  By at least late 2009, Sonatrach and Honeywell Belgium were at a standstill on Zone 
4.  The parties could not reach agreement concerning the construction schedule and the amount 
of liquidated damages that Sonatrach believed Honeywell Belgium should pay for the delay.  
Sonatrach’s downstream development director (“the Sonatrach official”) was a key decision 
maker in the resolution of the disputed issues. 

23. Beginning in early 2009, HPS’s regional general manager for Southern Europe 
and North Africa (“the HPS Regional GM”) discussed retaining the Monaco Agent to develop 
business opportunities for HPS in Algeria.  On behalf of Honeywell Belgium, the HPS 
Regional GM signed a memorandum of understanding with the Monaco Agent on November 
26, 2010.  A representative of the Monaco Agent signed the memorandum of understanding on 
January 4, 2011.  On February 6, 2011 Honeywell initiated a due diligence review of the 
Monaco Agent, which was completed and approved on March 4, 2011. 

A Honeywell Subsidiary Used 
the Monaco Agent to Further the Scheme 

24. On February 22, 2011, the HPS Regional GM and Sonatrach reached an oral 
agreement on the liquidated damages and Zone 4 scheduling issues.  The Monaco Agent was 



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not involved in the resolution of the Zone 4 issues or on any other aspect of the Arzew refinery 
contract.  That same day, the HPS Regional GM falsely informed Honeywell Belgium’s Arzew 
refinery project manager by email that HPS had a new agreement with the Monaco Agent to 
work on Zone 4 and other sales projects in Algeria.   

25. Around this time, an executive of the Monaco Agent received a panicked phone 
call from the HPS Regional GM asking him to make a pass-through payment to a group of 
people in Europe who purportedly had helped Honeywell Belgium secure a contract with 
Sonatrach.  The Monaco Agent executive understood this to mean that the payment was 
possibly a bribe.       

26. The HPS Regional GM delegated the details of negotiating the pass-through 
payment with the Monaco Agent to his subordinate, a regional sales manager at HPS.  
According to the Monaco Agent, the HPS regional sales manager told him that the Monaco 
Agent needed only to make the pass-through payment and it would receive a lump sum 
payment from Honeywell.  The HPS regional sales manager also explained that the Sonatrach 
official was the source of Honeywell’s problems with Sonatrach.  On March 22, 2011, an email 
internal to the Monaco Agent provided contact details of a shell entity that Honeywell Belgium 
“wants us to sign with” for purposes of the pass-through payment.   

27. Sometime before April 19, 2011, the HPS regional sales manager engaged an 
individual to work unofficially to help resolve the company’s problems with Sonatrach (the 
“Consultant”).  On April 19, 2011, the Consultant, on behalf of Honeywell Belgium, paid the 
Sonatrach official $50,000 from a Swiss bank account and an additional $25,000 from the same 
Swiss bank account on December 28, 2011. 

28. During much of the spring of 2011, Sonatrach and Honeywell Belgium 
continued to dispute the Zone 4 construction schedule, which Honeywell thought was too 
aggressive.  Sonatrach also threatened to transfer the work on Zone 4 to a competitor if 
Honeywell Belgium did not agree to Sonatrach’s scheduling demands.  On June 19, 2011, after 
the first $50,000 payment to the Sonatrach official, Honeywell Belgium and Sonatrach 
executed an amendment to the Arzew refinery contract memorializing the parties’ oral 
agreement on the Zone 4 construction schedule and liquidated damages amount.   

29. Two weeks later, the Monaco Agent and a Honeywell wholly-owned subsidiary 
entered into a fictitious sales consultancy agreement whereby the Monaco Agent would 
purportedly promote sales in Algeria for a 2% to 4.5% commission without exceeding 
$500,000 per year.  The agreement made no mention of Zone 4.  Although the Monaco Agent 
never achieved certain milestones required for payments over $50,000 or obtained any new 
business for HPS as contemplated under the consulting agreement, the Monaco Agent was 
nevertheless paid $300,000. 

The Monaco Agent Repaid the Consultant Who Provided Funds 
to a Sonatrach Official Through a Series of Transactions 

30. On December 19, 2011, the Monaco Agent sent an invoice to the HPS Regional 
GM requesting a “Lump Sum Fee of $300,000” in connection with “Sonatrach Arzew Refinery 



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– Change Order / Zone 4.”  Thereafter, the HPS Regional GM sent a copy of the invoice to 
Honeywell’s Arzew project manager, who had previously questioned the basis for the $300,000 
lump sum payment and thought it was higher than previously mentioned.  The HPS Regional 
GM reiterated that $300,000 was the agreed upon amount, and the project manager did not 
question him further or raise the issue to anyone else at Honeywell.  Shortly thereafter, the HPS 
Regional GM forwarded the invoice to finance for their review and approval. 

31. Honeywell Belgium approved the Monaco Agent’s invoice in late January 2012 
and, on February 22, 2012, Honeywell Belgium paid a lump sum of $300,000 to the Monaco 
Agent, which was falsely recorded as a sales commission.  Through a series of intermediary 
transfers, the Monaco Agent used a portion of the money from Honeywell Belgium to repay the 
Consultant who had paid the $75,000 in bribe payments to the Sonatrach official.  The series of 
intermediary transfers involved multiple U.S. correspondent banks located in New York.  The 
Monaco Agent admitted that it recorded the payments with internal codes the Monaco Agent 
sometimes used for bribe payments.   

32. In connection with the Algeria Conduct above, Honeywell obtained $3,118,350 
in profits to be disgorged to the Commission. 

LEGAL STANDARDS AND FCPA VIOLATIONS 

33. Under Section 21C(a) of the Exchange Act, the Commission may impose a 
cease-and-desist order upon any person who is violating, has violated, or is about to violate any 
provision of the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation thereunder, and upon any other person 
that is, was, or would be a cause of the violation, due to an act or omission the person knew or 
should have known would contribute to such violation. 

Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 30A 

34. The anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA, Section 30A of the Exchange Act, 
make it unlawful for any issuer with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of 
the Exchange Act, or any employee or agent of such issuer, to make use of the mails or any 
means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, 
promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of any money, or offer, gift or promise to give 
anything of value to any foreign official for purposes of influencing any act or decision of such 
foreign official in his official capacity in order to assist such issuer in obtaining or retaining 
business for or with any person.  As a result of the conduct described above Honeywell violated 
Exchange Act Section 30A. 

Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(A) 

35. The books and records provision of the FCPA, Section 13(b)(2)(A) of the 
Exchange Act, requires every issuer with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 
of the Exchange Act to make and keep books, records, and accounts, which, in reasonable 
detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer.  
As a result of the conduct described above, Honeywell violated Exchange Act Section 



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13(b)(2)(A).  

Honeywell Violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B) 

36. Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act requires companies with a class of 
securities registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act to devise and maintain a system of 
internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are 
executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions 
are recorded as necessary (I) to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with 
generally accepted accounting principles or any other criteria applicable to such statements, and 
(II) to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance 
with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for 
assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is 
taken with respect to any differences.  As described above, Honeywell failed to implement a 
system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that 
transactions were executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization 
and that access to assets was permitted only in accordance with management’s general or 
specific authorization.  By this conduct, Honeywell violated Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B). 

Honeywell’s Remedial Actions and Cooperation 

37. In determining to accept the Offer, the Commission considered remedial acts 
undertaken by Honeywell and cooperation afforded the Commission staff.  Honeywell 
cooperated in the Commission’s investigation by identifying and timely producing key 
documents identified in the course of its own internal investigation, providing the facts 
developed in its internal investigation, and making current or former employees available to the 
Commission staff, including those who needed to travel to the United States. 

38. Honeywell’s remediation included: (i) strengthening its ethics and compliance 
organization; (ii) terminating sales directors involved in the misconduct in Brazil and demoting 
an employee with significant supervisory responsibilities over the misconduct in Brazil; (iii) 
implementing a program to eliminate UOP’s use of sales agents altogether (as of 3Q 2021, 
UOP had reduced its sales agent force by two-thirds); (iv) enhancing Honeywell’s  policies and 
procedures including with respect to due diligence of third parties (including consolidating the 
due diligence process into one automated system and requiring third parties to submit quarterly 
reports and FCPA certifications); (v) improving Honeywell’s financial controls over third 
parties (including implementing digital end-to-end controls over payments to third party sales 
agents and ensuring that payments to sales intermediaries are made by wire transfer to an 
account belonging to the same party and to a bank account where the sales intermediary 
resides); and (vi) enhancing training provided to Honeywell employees and sales intermediaries 
regarding anti-corruption, controls, and other compliance issues. 
 
 
 



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39. UOP has entered into a three-year deferred-prosecution agreement with the 
United States Department of Justice in which it acknowledges criminal responsibility for 
criminal conduct relating to the findings in the Order concerning Brazil.   

DISGORGEMENT AND NON-IMPOSITION OF A CIVIL PENALTY 

40. Honeywell acknowledges that the Commission is not imposing a civil penalty 
based upon the imposition of a $39,621,375 million criminal fine (after providing a 50% offset 
for payments made to Brazilian authorities) as part of UOP’s resolution with the United States 
Department of Justice concerning the conduct in Brazil. 

41. The disgorgement and prejudgment interest ordered in paragraph IV.B is 
consistent with equitable principles, does not exceed Respondent’s net profits from its 
violations, and returning the money to Respondent would be inconsistent with equitable 
principles.  Therefore, in these circumstances, distributing disgorged funds to the U.S. Treasury 
is the most equitable alternative.  The disgorgement and prejudgment interest ordered in 
paragraph IV.B shall be transferred to the general fund of the U.S. Treasury, subject to Section 
21F(g)(3) of the Exchange Act.  

IV. 

In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate to impose the 
sanctions agreed to in Respondent’s Offer. 

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that: 

A. Pursuant to Section 21C of the Exchange Act, Respondent shall cease and 
desist from committing or causing any violations and any future violations of Sections 30A, 
13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act. 

B. Respondent is liable to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for 
disgorgement of $64,672,563 and prejudgment interest of $16,485,630, for a total of 
$81,158,193.  Respondent shall receive a disgorgement and prejudgment interest offset of up to 
$38,712,216 based on the U.S. dollar value (based on the exchange rate on the date of the 
payment) of any disgorgement paid to the Controladoria-Geral de União (“CGU”)/Advocacia-
Geral de União (“AGU”) and the Ministério Publico Federal (“MPF”) reflected by evidence 
acceptable to the Commission staff in its sole discretion, in a parallel proceeding against 
Respondent in Federal Court in Brazil.  Such evidence of payment shall include a copy of the 
wire transfer or other evidence of the amount of the payment, the date of the payment, and the 
name of the government agency to which payment was made.  To receive this offset, 
Respondent must make the above-identified payments within 90 days from the date of this 
Order.  Any amounts not paid as an offset within the specific time shall be immediately due to 
the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission.  Respondent shall, within 30 days of the entry 
of this Order, pay disgorgement of $33,895,456 and prejudgment interest of $8,550,521 for a 
total payment of $42,445,977 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for transfer to the 
general fund of the United States Treasury, subject to the Exchange Act Section 21F(g)(3).  If 



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timely payment is not made, additional interest shall accrue pursuant to SEC Rule of Practice 
600. 

C. Payment must be made in one of the following ways: 

(1) Respondent may transmit payment electronically to the 
Commission, which will provide detailed ACH 
transfer/Fedwire instructions upon request; 

(2) Respondent may make direct payment from a bank account 
via Pay.gov through the SEC Web site at 
http://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ofm.htm; or 

(3) Respondent may pay by certified check, bank cashier’s check, 
or United States postal money order, made payable to the 
Securities and Exchange Commission and hand-delivered or 
mailed to: 

   Enterprise Services Center   
   Accounts Receivable Branch   
   HQ Bldg., Room 181, AMZ- 341 
   6500 South MacArthur Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK 73169 

 Payments by check or money order must be accompanied by a cover letter 
identifying Honeywell as the Respondent in these proceedings, and the file number of 
these proceedings; a copy of the cover letter and check or money order must be sent to 
Charles Cain, Unit Chief, FCPA Unit, Division of Enforcement, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 100 F St., NE, Washington, DC 20549. 

 
  By the Commission. 

 

 

Vanessa A. Countryman 
Secretary 
 
 
 

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	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
	II.
	III.
	SUMMARY
	RESPONDENT
	OTHER RELEVANT ENTITIES
	FACTS
	UOP and the Petrobras Scheme in Brazil
	LEGAL STANDARDS AND FCPA VIOLATIONS
	IV.