A subsidiary of McKinsey & Co. will pay nearly $123 million to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to settle allegations that it bribed officials in South Africa to win consulting contracts.

McKinsey & Co. Africa will pay the criminal penalty to resolve the DOJ investigation into a scheme to pay bribes to officials at South African government-owned entities Transnet and Eskom between 2012-16, earning the company approximately $85 million, the DOJ said Thursday in a press release.

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Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...