Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Paid bribes to Greek Tax Officers to avoid tax audit in 2004
Continue ReadingAmerican Totalisator Co., paid bribes in obtaining and retaining business with the Greek Horse Racing Administration.
American Totalisator Co., paid bribes in obtaining and retaining business with the Greek Horse Racing Administration.
Continue ReadingControl Components Inc. paid bribes to obtain a contract with Greek state owned company PPC
Defendant DAVID EDMONDS was the Vice-President of Worldwide Customer Service at CCI from in or around 2000 through in or around 2007 and oversaw CCI’s replacement parts sales and the servicing of existing valves.One of CCI’s customers was the Public Power Corporation of Greece (“Public Power”), which owned and operated the Amynteon and Aghios Dimitrios […]
Continue ReadingGreece’s consul in Rio de Janeiro, paid bribes
On August 18, 2017, Brazilian authorities confirm that they were investigating allegations that Greek shipping companies paid bribes to obtain contracts from Petrobras. According to prosecutors, Konstantinos Kotronakis, Greece’s consul in Rio de Janeiro, paid bribes and provided insider information to help the Greek shipping companies win more than USD 500 million worth of contracts […]
Continue ReadingBribery of millions of euros from SMITH & NEPHEW PLC to Greek government, public hospital administrators and doctors in Greece.
From 1997 to June 2008, two of S&N pIc’s subsidiaries engaged in a scheme with a distributor who made illicit payments to public doctors employed by government. hospitals or agencies in Greece. Smith & Nephew Inc. (“S&N Inc.”), a Delaware corporation that is headquartered in Memphis, TN, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of S&N pIc. S&N […]
Continue ReadingRheinmetall Defence Elektronics GmbH & Atlas Elektronik paid Greek Government officials a total of EUR 13million in bribes.
On 1 June 2017, Atlas Elektronik settled with the German authorities for allegations of bribery of foreign officials. According to the Bremen Public Prosecution Office, Atlas Elektronik paid more than EUR 13 million to Greek officials to obtain a contract for two projects on sonar systems for submarines. A shell company in London and accounts […]
Continue ReadingUnlawful Payments in Greece by Stryker Corporation wholly-owned subsidiary in Greece (“Stryker Greece”)
In 2007, Stryker’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Greece (“Stryker Greece”) made a sizeable and atypical donation of $197,055 to a public university (the “Greek University”) to fund a laboratory that was then being established by a foreign official who served as a prominent professor at the Greek University, and was the director of medical clinics at […]
Continue ReadingPfizer pharmaceutical company in bribery scandal, associate of the Greek government.
Surprisingly, they are highly regarded by the Greek government, although they have officially acknowledged that they bribe government officials, in accordance to U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI in this matter. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourlas with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis known by his involvement the […]
Continue ReadingMillions of euros from Depuy International Limited paid to Greek government official, public hospital administrators and doctors in Greece.
The court documents explains how, and points out that this was not the only case and that it is a corruption epidemic in the field of medical supply in Greece. Thus, for example, in Greece the price of a prosthetic knee was £4,400 when the European average was exactly half (£2,200), and on occasions lower […]
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Bribes for Sikorsky Aircraft Division
of United Technologies Corporation
Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Technologies Corporation to provide radar equipment for helicopters supplied under the aircraft firm’s prime contract with the Hellenic Navy of Greece. In 1994, Telephonics entered into a separate contract with the Greek Navy into a separate contract with the Greek Navy to provide spare parts in support of radar equipment […]
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