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Fraport Employees Admit Bribery in Uzbekistan

In 2000, two, now former, Fraport employees admitted paying bribes of $195,000 to win the contract to modernise Tashkent airport.

The employees maintained that the payments were made with the knowledge of senior management.

The investigation in Germany initially covered only the two Fraport employees. It was then widened to include Fraport senior management, but this investigation was dropped in March 2005. The company Fraport is no longer under investigation in relation to this corruption case.

References
Financial Times  [Publication date: 13/1/2004] 'Fraport chiefs in bribe probe' by HUGH WILLIAMSON
   http://www.fraport.de/cms/default/rubrik/1/1961.fraport_de.htm
[ Date URL accessed: 22/3/2003 ]

World Markets Analysis  [Publication date: 13/1/2004] 'Prosecutors Probe Frankfurt Airport Operator in Uzbekistan Bribery Scandal' by Dario Thuburn
[ Date URL accessed: 20/6/2004 ]

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