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British accounting regulators have started an investigation into KPMG’s auditing of controversial defense company BAE Systems.The company has for years been battling allegations that it paid bribes to secure arms deals around the world. Earlier this year it agreed on a settlement and substantial fines with prosecutors in the United...

Two anti-corruption groups have lost their court battle to delay approval of a controversial plea bargain between the U.K. Serious Fraud Office and arms company BAE Systems.The defeat for protest groups Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade clears the way for BAE to plead guilty to charges it agreed...

Two anti-corruption groups have convinced a British court to delay final approval of a  controversial plea bargain between the U.K. Serious Fraud Office and arms company BAE Systems, complicating closure of what had already been a much-criticized prosecution.The ruling, issued March 2, means that BAE cannot plead guilty to the charges...

Two anti-corruption groups have started legal action aimed at wrecking a controversial plea bargain reached between the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office and arms company BAE Systems.The SFO had spent years investigating suspicions that BAE used bribery and corruption to secure deals worth billions of pounds in several countries, but ten...

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The U.K. Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into suspected bribery and corruption involving arms company BAE Systems has finally led to someone being charged with a criminal offense. An Austrian aristocrat, Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, was charged in connection with defense contracts between BAE and certain countries in Eastern and Central Europe....

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