Bridge builder committed overseas corruption

Posted on 10 Jul 2009 by The Manufacturer

An engineering firm from Reading has admitted ten counts of corruption and sanctions violation at a trial in Westminster.

Mabey & Johnson, a manufacturer of temporary bridges, pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe officials in Ghana and Jamaica for public contracts and donated over £120,000 to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq regime, which was against the rules set out by the United Nation’s UN oil for food programme. The company is expected to face a large…

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