US court documents reveal how SAP greased the palms of government and parastatal officials

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Court documents reveal how SAP bribed Eskom officials

Court documents have revealed details surrounding German software giant SAP's bribery case, making public how the multinational company bought the favour of officials at parastatals such as Transnet and Eskom.

According to allegations brought by the U.S. government, the software giant engaged with multiple third-party intermediaries to help it obtain and retain business with Eskom and other parastatals despite the intermediaries providing no legitimate services.
 
I feel sorry for SAP. I'm sorry but i do. I have no ties to them BUT... I've been in many many Govt procurement meetings with officials and 99.9% of them wanted a bribe. Some of it open, some of it through very well planned and buried family and shelf companies.

The fact is, all the big players in Govt have supported bribery - either directly or by forced procurement through a Govt's family member. You start buying X from Y and we'll give you a contract for Z...

SAP was a player in the game, and they lost. There's many out there SAP's size and bigger still happily playing...
 
"SAP has accepted responsibility for corrupt practices that hurt honest businesses engaging in global commerce" - and how are those honest businesses being COMPENSATED? SAP has already profited, and will continue to be for the next two decades, while that software of theirs is in use.
 
Don't forget these alleged crimes were committed by the allegedly criminal acts of the allegedly criminal peoples who were in fact related to De Ruyter :love:
 
Some businesses are ruthless, hey? Some processes and applications for business takes too long, so bribes has to happen, in order to speed up the process. What is 2.2 mil for SAP, if they can get exclusive access to providing services/business deals that rakes in more money than I can keep count of?

That's how some businesses are so successful in some countries, where processes take too long, and some certain "motivation" is required to get it faster processed through the system... It's bad, but that's how some operates, unfortunately.
 
Hopefully they will make the corrupt people public in the court case, so we can congratulate them and promote them somewhere else.
 
rrh said:
Don't forget these alleged crimes were committed by the allegedly criminal acts of the allegedly criminal peoples who were in fact related to De Ruyter :love:
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His cousins? You should name them.
 
Everyone was eating, and if you think corporations don't dish out happily and regularly wherever they want to get a leg up, guess again.
 
Honestly if you think SAP is the only IT company that had to do some "golden handshakes" then you are delusional - if Gupta name wasn't linked to it it would have never made front page news. Case and point, why isn't there an article weekly on the corruption allegations against oracle on Mybb? Is SAP the only enterprise application company that is worthy or only because it has "clicks" aka "Gupta" in the headline...

No headline on this? - https://techcentral.co.za/oracle-no-comment-on-treasury-corruption-allegations/178481/
 
When another skelm country has to point out how skelm we are. Ai
 
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