AIRBUS OPENS SECOND INTERNAL GRAFT PROBE
September 1st, 2017
Airbus Industrie has opened the second internal investigation in less than a year, following an exclusive September 18 report in The Guardian newspaper linked the aeronautics giant to two companies making secret payments via tax havens.
Airbus Industrie is already under investigation in both France and the UK, over its use of middlemen to pass bungs to gain government contracts.
The latest probe into possible money laundering, which is not linked to any ongoing proceedings, involves EUR19 million in share purchases between two companies, secretly owned by ...
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