Appeals Court upholds bribery conviction of Alstom Network
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-07-23T19:43:00
The Criminal Division of the U.K. Court of Appeal has upheld the April 2018 conviction of Alstom Network UK over a bribery case concerning an infrastructure contract in Tunisia.
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