OUP ADMITS SUBSIDIARIES BRIBED AFRICAN OFFICIALS FOR TEXTBOOK SALES
July 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ARM of the Oxford University Press (OUP) will pay GBP1.89 million through a UK High Court civil recovery order for illegally bribing Tanzanian and Kenyan officials to win school textbook contracts. The bribes were made through Oxford Publishing Limited's (OPL) Kenyan and Tanzanian subsidiaries OUP East Africa and OUP Tanzania. Senior OUP executives say they became aware of the bribes in 2011, calling in the Serious Fraud Office and warning the World Bank, with whom it had cooperated on east African textbook projects. The SFO said it and the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.