{"id":6387,"date":"2008-12-19T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-19T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T09:19:00","slug":"siemens-probed-for-alleged-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/6387-siemens-probed-for-alleged-bribes.html","title":{"rendered":"Siemens probed for alleged bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian prosecutors have opened an investigation against German engineering group Siemens on suspicion it paid bribes to secure multi-million-dollar subway contracts, reports quoting officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are going to contact German legal authorities to exchange information,&quot; Sao Paulo prosecutor Antonio Celso de Oliveira Farias told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations stem from the award in 2000 of four contracts worth a billion reais ($425 million).<\/p>\n<p>Suspicions were raised when German investigators found that two Brazilians were involved in a worldwide network of alleged corruption in the German company estimated to have totaled &euro;1.3 billion ($900 million).<\/p>\n<p>Siemens on Monday agreed to pay one billion dollars to German and US authorities to settle a probe in which it was accused of bribing officials in Argentina, Bangladesh, Iraq and Venezuela to win contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian prosecutors have opened an investigation against German engineering group Siemens on suspicion it paid bribes to secure multi-million-dollar subway contracts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}