The prosecutor’s office of the German Cologne and Exchange Commission and the US Securities and Exchange (SEC) to investigate a case of bribery, that a number of employees of the American concern Ford and the German transport company Schenker, as the expected to pay in the port of St. Petersburg.
For information on Tuesday published the Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in the material under the heading of “mischief in St. Petersburg”.
The investigation carried out in 2013 year.
source at Ford confirmed investigative Reuters.
Under suspicion are two employees of Ford, eight former and current employees of Schenker and one employee an unnamed contractor firm from Russia, Reuters reported.
German prosecutors suspect firm-carrier Schenker, a daughter of the state railway concern Deutsche Bahn in bribes and other abuses in the delivery of goods intended for assembling Ford plant near St. Petersburg.
Ford sacked at the end of 2014 700 employees of the factory near St. Petersburg due to the downturn in the Russian economy.
Schenker delivered to the Russian cargo Ford has until the end of 2014, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Bribes, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, were paid to expedite clearance of cargo containers to be delivered by sea to the port of St. Petersburg, known kilometers of queues.
Securities Commission has not responded is a request by Reuters for comment. Ford said he supported any government investigation, but does not comment on current affairs.
Concern Deutsche Bahn reported that dismissed employees who have fallen under suspicion, and conducting an internal investigation against several of its employees.
The fact is, as the media reported, the Prosecutor’s Office of Cologne, as there is the European headquarters of Ford.
SEK allegedly assisting the German prosecutors, since Ford shares traded, in particular, on the New York Stock Exchange.
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