{"id":4149,"date":"2010-03-23T02:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:29:12","slug":"u-s-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/u-s-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. alleges Daimler paid bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/us-alleges-daimler-paid-bribes\/article1509482\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4150\" title=\"100324_daimler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100324_daimler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Daimler AG was charged on Tuesday with violating U.S. bribery laws for a decade by showering foreign officials with millions of dollars in payments and gifts of luxury cars in hopes of winning lucrative business deals. Daimler plans to pay $185-million (U.S.) to settle charges by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission while its German and Russian units plan to plead guilty to the criminal charges, a source familiar with the case said. U.S. prosecutors accused the German automotive giant of engaging \u201cin a long-standing practice of paying bribes\u201d to secure deals in Russia, China, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Iraq and at least 16 other countries between 1998 and early 2008, according to a criminal information filed in U.S. court. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/us-alleges-daimler-paid-bribes\/article1509482\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company \u2014 EthicalQuote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=0\" target=\"_blank\">Daimler<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/us-alleges-daimler-paid-bribes\/article1509482\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler AG was charged on Tuesday with violating U.S. bribery laws for a decade by showering foreign officials with millions of dollars in payments and gifts of luxury cars in hopes of winning lucrative business deals. Daimler plans to pay $185-million (U.S.) to settle charges by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-daimler","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}