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		<title>Six people face charges for allegedly bribing Amazon staff to help sellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 21:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The indicted include Rohit Kadmisetty, Nishad Kunju, Kristen Leccese, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic and Ephraim Rosenberg. They all face charges for commercial bribery, accessing protected computers without authorization, and wire fraud. The group will make its first appearance in a Seattle court on October 15th. The case isn’t particularly well-timed for Amazon. The company [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The indicted include Rohit Kadmisetty, Nishad Kunju, Kristen Leccese, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic and Ephraim Rosenberg. They all face charges for commercial bribery, accessing protected computers without authorization, and wire fraud.</p>
<p>The group will make its first appearance in a Seattle court on October 15th.</p>
<p>The case isn’t particularly well-timed for Amazon. The company is no stranger to issues with rogue third-party sellers, and has been accused of using seller data to <a href="https://search.engadget.com/click/_ylt=A2KLfStedWZfm_gAbwZ8BWVH;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj/RV=2/RE=1600579038/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.engadget.com%2famazon-used-seller-data-for-competing-products-180533964.html/RK=2/RS=eOMRZK3muyz.KZja5agX.ihuLqU-">make competing products</a> and gain an unfair advantage. While the two cases aren’t connected, this latest bust doesn’t help Amazon’s claims that it has a handle on third-party seller abuse.</p>
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		<title>Ericsson will pay over $1 billion to settle US corruption charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 09:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The settlement leaves Ericsson largely free of criminal convictions that could have led to sanctions and other stiff penalties, although its Egyptian branch pleaded guilty to violating the FCPA. It&#8217;s paying about $520.6 million to the DOJ, while the remaining $539.9 million goes to the SEC. For contrast, companies like HP have paid &#8216;just&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The settlement leaves Ericsson largely free of criminal convictions that could have led to sanctions and other stiff penalties, although its Egyptian branch pleaded guilty to violating the FCPA.  It&#8217;s paying about $520.6 million to the DOJ, while the remaining $539.9 million goes to the SEC.  For contrast, companies <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/hp-agrees-to-pay-55-million-to-settle-investigation-into-illega/">like HP</a> have paid &#8216;just&#8217; tens of millions to settle smaller bribery charges.</p>
<p>Ericsson chief Borje Ekholm (who took the role in January 2017) <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ericsson/ericsson-to-pay-over-1-billion-to-resolve-u-s-corruption-probes-idUSKBN1YA2HU">told the media</a> that he considered the corruption &#8220;completely unacceptable,&#8221; pointing out that some of those involved were executives.  The company also said it had taken steps to improve both its ethics and its monitoring.</p>
<p>The deal likely won&#8217;t make everyone happy.  Ericsson&#8217;s behavior went on for the better part of two decades, but the company will largely be off the hook &#8212; the company said it could handle the settlement with &#8220;available funds.&#8221;  Still, the payout is significant enough that it might give other tech firms pause if their anti-corruption policies are lax.</p>
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		<title>Man charged with bribing AT&#038;T staff to illegally unlock phones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] There&#039;s no question that there&#039;s a market for unlocked phones, but one man may have been too eager to profit from that demand. The US has charged Pakistani citizen Muhammad Fahd with bribing staff at AT&#38;amp;T&#039;s call center in Bothell, Washington to&#8230; [ad_2] Source link]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft will pay $25 million to settle Hungary bribery charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The SEC also determined that Microsoft&#8217;s Saudi Arabian and Thai subsidiaries offered &#8220;improper travel and gifts&#8221; (read: more bribes) to officials and staff at non-government customers. The Turkish unit provided an &#8220;excessive discount&#8221; to a third party without any signs of services being offered, although US regulators stopped short of alleging bribery. In a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The SEC also determined that Microsoft&#8217;s Saudi Arabian and Thai subsidiaries offered &#8220;improper travel and gifts&#8221; (read: more bribes) to officials and staff at non-government customers.  The Turkish unit provided an &#8220;excessive discount&#8221; to a third party without any signs of services being offered, although US regulators stopped short of alleging bribery.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/07/22/microsoft-president-brad-smith-email-to-employees-there-is-no-room-for-compromise-when-it-comes-to-ethical-business-practices/">message</a> to staff, Microsoft president Brad Smith said the company fired the offending employees over three years ago and severed relations with four resellers.  It accordingly improved its anti-corruption efforts, including transparency for public sector discounts and using AI to flag potentially illegal sales.  The company had to put up a fight, though &#8212; it faced lawsuits from resellers upset at the lost business.  Microsoft eventually prevaliled, though, and said it was important to &#8220;cut all ties&#8221; with any company involved in the behavior.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a huge American tech company has been involved in European bribery allegations.  HP staff were accused in 2012 of <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2012/09/20/german-prosecution-charges-hp-staff-with-bribing-russian-officials/">bribing Russian officials</a> to land a computer contract.  It&#8217;s still a relatively rare incident, though, and a headache for a company that was supposed to have left its legal troubles <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2013/03/06/microsoft-european-commission-fine/">in the past</a>.</p>
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