Former Alstom, Marubeni execs face FCPA charges in bribery scheme
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-02-19T19:25:00
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against three more individuals for their role in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar foreign bribery scheme and related money-laundering scheme in Indonesia.
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