PALO ALTO -- Hewlett-Packard has agreed to give a $108 million fine to resolve allegations with the aim of its subsidiaries bribed officials in the sphere of Poland, Russia and Mexico to win corporation contracts, the company and federal investigators announced Wednesday.
"Hewlett-Packard subsidiaries formed a slush source on behalf of bribe payments, array up an intricate muddle of shell companies and side accounts to filter money, employed two sets of books to track bribe recipients, and used shadowy email accounts and prepaid portable telephones to coordinate underground meetings to distribute in excess of bags of coins," a U.S. Justice area statement whispered.
The statement cited HP's "extensive cooperation" with investigators, which integrated liability its own look into, making its employees obtainable on behalf of interviews and gathering "voluminous evidence."
HP is paying the fine to the Justice area and the U.S. Securities and swap Commission, which besides investigated the commission. In the sphere of its own statement, HP whispered the bribery "was inadequate to a miniature amount of relatives who are rebuff longer employed by the company."
Federal officials whispered the bribes totaled further than $2 million in the sphere of Russia, further than $1 million in the sphere of Mexico and further than $600,000 in the sphere of Poland.
In the middle of other things, HP Polish subsidiary HP Poland "gave the government executive bags crammed with hundreds of thousands of dollars of coins, provided the executive with HP desktop and laptop computers, portable policy and other products and took the executive on a leisure tour to Las Vegas, which integrated drinks, dining, entertainment and a restricted tour trip in excess of the overall Canyon," the Justice area whispered.
"To covertly communicate with the executive not far off from the corrupt scheme," it added, an executive with the subsidiary "used shadowy email accounts, prepaid portable telephones and other methods preordained to evade detection."
In the sphere of Russia, the agency whispered, the bribes were "largely transferred through a cascading string of shell companies — a few of which were candidly associated with government officials -- registered in the sphere of the United States, United Kingdom, British Virgin Islands and Belize." It whispered the payments were laundered through side accounts in the sphere of Switzerland, Lithuania, Latvia and Austria.
"Part of the Russian payments "were spent on travel, cars, jewelry, clothing, expensive watches, swimming pool skill, furniture, household appliances and other luxury goods," it whispered. "To keep track of these corrupt payments, the conspirators inside HP Russia reserved two sets of books: Secret spreadsheets with the aim of detailed the categories of recipients of the corrupt funds and sanitary versions with the aim of hid the corrupt payments from others outside of HP Russia."
And in the sphere of Mexico, the Justice area whispered, HP subsidiary HP Mexico "falsified corporate books and records and circumvented HP interior controls in the sphere of connection with contracts to go hardware, software, and licenses to Mexico's state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)."
In the sphere of order to prevail on the contracts, Justice officials added, "HP Mexico understood with the aim of it had to maintain a specific third-party consultant with close ties to senior executives of Pemex. HP agreed to give a $1.41 million 'commission' to the consultant," who in a while paid lone of the Pemex officials approximately $125,000.
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