Aviation group: British anti-corruption authority investigating Airbus – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

aircraft manufacturer Airbus is in the sights of British investigators.

The British anti-corruption authority “Serious Fraud Office” (SFO) investigation for corruption at aerospace group Airbus Group. As the authority announced on Sunday, is about “fraud, bribery and corruption” in transactions of the civil aviation division of Airbus. The allegations relate to irregularities involving consultants a “third party,” it said in a press release. The investigation had been initiated in July. More details wanted the authority initially do not.

The aerospace company letting them know you had been informed of the investigation and will continue to cooperate with the authority. “That’s something we have even discovered,” said spokesman Jeremy Greaves. The information on which the investigation is based have given the company in April to the competent authorities. It shows that the management had decided to investigate the incidents, since they did not meet the company’s principles.

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the Airbus Group is the largest European aerospace and defense group. According to the company, the company had 2015 revenues of 64.5 billion euros and employed 136,600 people.

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