Mercedes bribery claims spark US criminal inquiry

David Teather in New York
Saturday August 6, 2005
The Guardian

The United States justice department has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that DaimlerChrysler-owned Mercedes paid bribes to foreign officials.
The investigation was sparked by a former Chrysler accountant, who has alleged in a lawsuit that the German carmaker kept secret bank accounts to bribe officials in Africa and Latin America.

The American financial watchdog, the securities and exchange commission, opened a similar inquiry last year.

The former managing director of the company's plant in Nigeria, Rudi Kornmayer, killed himself in a German park on July 22. Prosecutors in Stuttgart said he left a suicide note but have not released its contents. A spokesman for DaimlerChrysler said yesterday that the company is cooperating with the investigation.




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Really doesn't surprise me. Third world dictators that do Diamler "favors" usualy get a few gift wrapped S600's.

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