Re:Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
by clSTophEjUdRanu on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:18PM
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Is there evidence of others?
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Re:Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
by pinkfoot on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:37AM
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Well, in the UK no less than PM Blair personally interfered to get to SFO to drop the in investigation into BAE bribery on the Eurofighter Typhoon project in Saudi Arabia.
Something about 5,000 jobs, ₤6 billion, and - of course - upset Saudi princes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal#Serious_F...
Re:Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
by francilien on Saturday February 01, 2020 @03:03AM
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I’m more familiar with German companies doing it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Greek_bribery_scandal
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/LIVE-the-israeli-submari...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41109132
And a longer list mixed with money laundering https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/25_corruption_scan...
Re:Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
by mthoms on Saturday February 01, 2020 @08:08PM
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All the big companies are doing it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/snc-lavalin-court/update-3-c...