Daimler overseas bribery case in the U.S. capital Washington, DC, the court held its first hearing on April 1 will conduct the hearing judge for the Washington, DC, Judge Richard Lyon (Richard Leon). Stood in the dock on Germany's Daimler Daimler AG, Daimler - Chrysler Ltd., the Russian company of Daimler, Daimler in Germany's export trade finance company.According to the documents obtained by the "First Financial Daily reporters from the U.S. Department of Justice, Daimler plans to pay a fine of $ 185 million out of court reconciliation of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission allegations. Accordance with the relevant laws of the United States, Daimler also pay costs associated with investigation and bribery related to a total of about a few million euros in nearly 10 years.U.S. judicial expect, Daimler will cost about € 500 million for bribery incident. If the settlement agreement, Daimler will be the following Siemens, the U.S. government and large foreign enterprises to reach an agreement on overseas bribery lawsuit, a German company. In December last year, Siemens had to pay a fine of $ 1.3 billion to end its investigation of the bribery cases in the United States and Germany.U.S. Department of Justice: the company culture condone overseas briberyIn the safe of the Daimler headquarters in Germany, every bribery case files cover payments to other countries or companies that written two letters: "NA" (in German means "useful money"). German, NA subtext is actually a "bribe subsection". "Special payments", 1998 years ago in Germany has been the legal existence, and can also request the government back taxes.U.S. Department of Justice said in the indictment, Daimler has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, "China, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Nigeria, Iraq and other government officials of 22 countries in the period 2000-2005 had and executives of state-owned enterprises, bribery total tens of millions of dollars, the company thus obtained additional pre-tax income of at least $ 50 billion.From 1999, German law prohibits domestic companies overseas bribery. First, however, disclosure of the exposure of the bribery files Daimler in Turkey in 2006. U.S. Department of Justice, the complaint said, "Daimler lack of regulatory management, and a corporate culture 'connivance' or even 'encouraged' companies overseas bribery".The complaint also said, Daimler paid hundreds of pen amounted to tens of millions of dollars 'improper payments' to foreign officials, these funds are used to provide cash rebates and gifts to officials of other countries to help Daimler to obtain the value billions of dollars in purchase contracts. "U.S. Department of Justice pointed out that most of bribery are paid by Daimler sales department under the control of third-party account "and the form of" commission ", the Committee on special discounts or" necessary expenses "within the company to pay .Localization bribery lineThroughout Daimler bribe list listed by the U.S. Department of Justice, it is not difficult to conclude that, as the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer and the second largest luxury car maker, Daimler is not only not bad money, and more familiar with localization and humane bribery:In 1999, Daimler had a government official in Libya presented a value of € 267 000 armored vehicles, in order to reach a deal selling trucks to Libya. Soon after, Daimler will be a value of € 300,000 bullet-proof Mercedes-Benz cars for his birthday a Turkmen government officials in government procurement, he can think more of Daimler ".From 2000 to 2005, Daimler - Chrysler a Chinese company employees in the form of royalty, luxury vacation travel, and gifts, spending more than 4.1 million euros to bribe Chinese officials, the total value of € 112 million car sales contract .In addition, Daimler is the United Nations "oil for food" project the support during the sale of motor vehicles to the Iraqi officials to pay a 10% rebate to earn profits of more than 4 million U.S. dollars.Bribery disclosure by the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute file list of companies in the petrochemical, oil's two subsidiaries - Eastern geophysical limited liability company (hereinafter referred to as the "Oriental geophysical) and Changqing Petroleum Exploration Bureau, impressively . U.S. Department of Justice pointed out in the indictment, Daimler headquarters and its Chinese subsidiary, a total of € 4,173,900 of "improper payments" paid to Chinese officials. These costs for Daimler brought the contract of a total of about € 112 million purchase transactions.U.S. Department of Justice document also described the case of China. The case that the collective Daimler worked six government officials traveling abroad foot the bill, the total amount of up to € 11,000, and tourist attractions, including Paris, Venice, including all the famous cities in Europe. Like this tourist had arranged at least 16 times.Between 1998 to 2005, Daimler the Sinopec personnel overseas training and travel a total payment of € 269,000. Daimler, through direct bribes to Chinese officials, in order to ensure a total of 2.6 million euros in Eastern Geophysical and its largest customer in China Petrochemical sales contract involving sales contracts to 71.56 million euros.Provide internship opportunities in the Daimler headquarters in 2000-2005, the son of Daimler responsible for the procurement of one to the east geophysical officials and his girlfriend, both a monthly salary of 600 euros, they watch the racing costs € 2,000, Germany free use of a Mercedes-Benz cars by Daimler.
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