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Man trucks probed in major ‘bribery’ scandal
Allan Hall in Berlin12.05.09
The giant Man trucks and machines company is the latest German industrial concern to be embroiled in a corruption scandal that has spread across the country.
More than 100 employees, many of them senior, are being probed by prosecutors in a multi-million euro scandal.
At least one senior management figure has been implicated and has been helping police unravel a labyrinthine paper trail across numerous countries.
Raids have taken place all over Germany in recent days by a task force of 300 police officers backed up by 26 prosecutors and 100 tax specialists. At the heart of the probe lie allegations of payments of millions in undeclared sums to bribe for trucks and buses business on the domestic market and overseas.
The same kind of scandal at Siemens tore through the company and saddled it with fines at home and in America in the tens of millions of pounds.
Two people were arrested in connection with the Man inquiry in recent days and more arrests may follow.
