Britain opened a criminal investigation against the group Airbus , on suspicion of corruption, said Sunday the British body responsible for the fight against corruption, called Serious Fraud Office (SFO). “These allegations relate to irregularities concerning third-party consultants,” the SFO said in a statement. Airbus has confirmed his side.
The SF0 “opened an investigation on suspicion of fraud, bribery, corruption and wine in activity civil Aviation Airbus “, the group said in a statement. Airbus reported on the same suspicions of SFO on “irregularities third consultants”, without giving further details.
The European group pointed out that it meant “cooperate with the SFO.” An SFO spokesman said no further information would be made public before the outcome of the investigation. The announcement comes four months after the British agency export credit suspended the export credits granted to Airbus . France and Germany have then done the same.
A400M Delays
Airbus is the largest aerospace company trade in the UK and its net profit soared 15% in the first half. Its half-year net profit reached 1.76 billion euros. The company had to move a heavy load of just over one billion euros as a result of various delays and technical problems of the A400M military transport.
An additional $ 385 million has also been provisioned for the latest addition to its airliners, the A350, faced with the difficulties of its subcontractors. These expenses are covered, however, by some 1.9 billion euros of capital gains realized on the occasion of the creation of Airbus Safran Launchers and sale of shares Dassault Aviation.
in April, group Airbus has written to its 15,000 employees in the UK to warn against an output of European Union within three months of the referendum on the issue. “We firmly believe that it makes sense economically to stay in the EU, which helped make the company a global success,” wrote several leaders of the giant aerospace and defense, in a letter addressed to staff.
(With AFP)
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