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Re:At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item by gruseom on Sunday December 21, 2008 @03:12PM (#405682)
There are some amazing statements in here:

"Bribery was Siemens’s business model," said Uwe Dolata, the spokesman for the association of federal criminal investigators in Germany

Before 1999, bribes were deductible as business expenses under the German tax code

To handle the business side of bribery, the executives turned to Mr. Siekaczek, a man renowned within the company for his personal honesty

Re:At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item by ckinnan on Sunday December 21, 2008 @06:14PM (#405835)
The deductible bribe was true in much of Europe until the mid 1990s, not just Germany. The US pushed them to change the laws.