ACCRA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Ghana has ordered a probe into accusations of bribery by European plan
ACCRA, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Ghana has ordered a probe into
accusations of bribery by European planemaker Airbus to
guarantee the acquisition of three navy planes between 2009 and
2015.
Ghana was amongst over a dozen nations concerned in a
$4-billion settlement Airbus agreed with European and U.S.
regulators regarding alleged bribes to clinch gross sales of its
plane. [nL8N2A04XO]
Airbus employed – and disguised about 5 million euros in
funds to – an in depth relative of a authorities official in Ghana
with no aerospace expertise in reference to the sale of the
planes, Britain’s Critical Fraud Workplace (SFO) mentioned on Friday.
The SFO’s disclosures, made public after a virtually four-year
investigation, got here as courts on each side of the Atlantic
formally permitted settlements that raise a authorized cloud that has
hung over Europe’s largest aerospace group for years.
However in Ghana the matter seems to be set to proceed.
The West African nation will “conduct a immediate inquiry to
decide the complicity or in any other case of any Ghanaian authorities
official, previous or current,” President Nana Akufo-Addo’s workplace
mentioned in a press release late on Sunday.
The Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC), which was in energy
on the time, denied the bribery claims in a press release on Sunday.
“The studies alleging…