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Additional Corruption Charges Brought in UK Against Alstom Subsidiary and Employee

Alstom SA Bribery Hungary

Continuing the steady drumbeat of corruption allegations against Alstom SA, a French power and transportation company, on April 16 new bribery charges were brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office against a company and employee affiliated with Alstom.  These latest charges related to alleged bribery in Hungary related to a Budapest Metro contract for trains.  The charges are in addition to 2014 charges in the UK against the same Alstom subsidiary and other former employees related to corruption in India, Poland, and Tunisia, and separately, according to news reports, related to alleged bribes in Lithuania. Alstom also pleaded guilty last year in the US to allegations of bribery in yet a different set of countries, and agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty for FCPA violations ever to the DOJ.  Several Alstom employees in the US have either pleaded guilty or are under indictment.