Airbus admits to paying bribes to ‘high ranking’ Ghanaian officials between 2009 and 2015
It has emerged that Europe’s largest aerospace multinational Airbus
paid bribes to high ranking Ghanaian PUBLIC officials in processes
leading to a planned purchase of military aircraft by Ghana between 2009
and 2015.
Four other countries have also been mentioned in a trial heard in London reported by the Guardian website.
The company admitted to the UK court
five counts of failing to prevent bribery, had used a network of secret
agents to pay large-scale backhanders to officials in foreign countries
to land high-value contracts. As a result, the court has fined it pay a
record £3bn in penalties.
The bribe payment was undertaken by Airbus French headquarters, which its one-time chief executive Tom Enders reportedly called “bullshit castle”.
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