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A former manager at the Swedish branch of Bombardier Transportation, a major engineering company, was indicted Wednesday on charges of aggravated bribery in what is one of Sweden’s biggest ever corruption scandals, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported Wednesday. Thomas Bimer, a former business area manager at Bombardier in Sweden, will now face trial for his role in the allegedly corrupt tender that Bombardier won in Azerbaijan in 2013. Prosecutors argue the $350 million contract to install signaling systems for a section of Azeri railway involved Bombardier paying a $100 million bribe to at least one mid-ranking railway executive. “[Bimer] was the head of the department in charge of this project. We believe that he was aware that Bombardier colluded with the customer in Azerbaijan,” Prosecutor Staffan Edlund, of the National Anti-Corruption Unit, told OCCRP. ....
A former manager at the Swedish branch of Bombardier Transportation, a major engineering company, was indicted Wednesday on charges of aggravated bribery in what is one of Sweden’s biggest ever corruption scandals ....
UPDATE 1-Swedish prosecutor charges ex-Bombardier employee over rail deal Reuters 1 hr ago (Adds comment from Bombardier, paragraph 6) STOCKHOLM, June 9 (Reuters) - An ex-employee of a unit of Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier, now owned by French firm Alstom, has been charged in Sweden on suspicion of bribing an Azerbaijani official to secure a rail equipment contract worth around $340 million. A Stockholm prosecutor said Bombardier s Swedish railway subsidiary had won the contract in 2013 by steering $100 million of the revenue to an Azeri company run by an official linked to the Azerbaijan railway authority responsible for the tender. The investigation shows that the Azeri company would receive approximately 100 million U.S. dollars for its part of the project and that Bombardier thus received help from the Azeri railway authority to win the procurement, prosecutor Staffan Edlund said in a statement. ....
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