Corrupção: 22 países (ganda festa!!)

A Daimler aceitou pagar 185 milhões de dólares para a SEC e o DoJ encerrarem os inquéritos por corrupção.

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The SEC alleges that Daimler paid at least USD56 million in improper payments over a period of more than 10 years. The payments involved more than 200 transactions in at least 22 countries. Daimler earned USD1,900 million in revenue and at least USD90 million in illegal profits through these tainted sales transactions, which involved at least 6,300 commercial vehicles and 500 passenger cars.
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It is no exaggeration to describe corruption and bribe-paying at Daimler as a standard business practice," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement
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Daimler agreed to pay USD91.4 million in disgorgement to settle the SEC's charges and pay USD93.6 million in fines to settle charges in separate criminal proceedings announced by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Vem em tudo o que é sítio. Por exemplo, aqui.

e que tal fucking?

have a beer, I mean!

esta terreola na Áustria quer dar o nome a uma cerveja e exportá-la pars os EUA.

The main tourist attraction of the Austrian village of Fucking, some 35 kilometres northwest of Salzburg, is its sign. It is pronounced "Fooking" in German. Now the village, with a population of just around 90, looks set to get a beer named after it, even though it doesn't have a brewery.

again, no Der Spiegel.

Corrupção: Portugal-Alemanha (olhós submarinos!!)

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Insiders suspect that even more cases in which the Essen company did the dirty work for other companies could turn up soon. "The case could have repercussions for the whole of German industry," says a former MAN executive.

The current internal corruption scandal at Ferrostaal revolves around the delivery of two Type 209 submarines to Portugal. Ferrostaal, which had bid against submarine builder HDW and shipbuilder Thyssen Nordseewerke, won the €880 million contract in November 2003 -- with the help of bribes and a number of phony consulting contracts.

According to the investigators' files, a Portuguese honorary consul approached one of the Ferrostaal board members in 1999. The man allegedly said that he could be helpful in the initiation of the submarine deal. According to the files, the honorary diplomat demonstrated his influence by setting up a direct meeting in the summer of 2002 with then Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso.

The Ferrostaal executives in Essen were apparently so impressed that they signed a consulting agreement with the honorary consul in January 2003, in return for his "constructive assistance." Under the agreement, the Portuguese diplomat was to be paid 0.3 percent of the total contract volume if the deal went through.

The consul ended up collecting roughly €1.6 million, which the investigators see as a clear violation of his duties as a diplomat.

But it appears that Ferrostaal did not rely solely on its advisor's good connections to bring about the submarine deal. It is believed that a consulting agreement was concluded between Ferrostaal and a partner, on the one hand, and a rear admiral in the Portuguese navy, on the other. The deal, most recently, was worth €1 million.


A Portuguese law firm is also believed to have played a role in ensuring that that the contract was awarded to Ferrostaal, and that plenty of bribe money was paid in return.

Prosecutors have already identified more than a dozen suspicious brokerage and consulting agreements related to the submarine deal. According to the investigation files, all of these agreements were designed "to obfuscate the money trails," so as to pass on payments "to decision-makers in the Portuguese government, ministries or navy."

It appears that, in the end, Ferrostaal paid so many consulting fees that not much was left in the form of profits from the submarine deal.

mais uma vez na Der Spiegel.

Corrupção: Alemanha

US Investigators Crack Down on Daimler's Culture of Corruption
(no Der Spiegel).

Corrupção: Alemanha

Allemagne

Un pays où les riches peuvent frauder en toute impunité

L'achat par le gouvernment d'un listing volé de comptes bancaires en Suisse fair grand bruit dans le pays. Mais pour combattre la fraude, l'État devrait surtout penser sa politique de contrôle fiscal.

Início de artigo do Berliner Zeitung, no Courrier International de 4 de Fevereiro.

já agora, acrescento também este bocado:

A vrai dire, L'État ne se donne guère de mal pour se renseigner sur la situation des ménages les plus aisés. En témoigne le rapport du gouvernment sur la pauvreté et la richesse, qui consacre 216 pages aux pauvres et seulement 10 aux riches. De manière générale, on constate que les finances des bénéficiaires de l'aide sociale sont contrôlées au centime près, tandis que les citoyens les plus fortunés promènent leurs millions, notamment du côté de la Suisse, sans que cela intéresse quiconque au gouvernment.