Swedish justice acquits Bombardier worker in Azerbaijan temptation trial
A Russian worker in a Swedish bend of Canadian craft and sight builder Bombardier was clear Wednesday of aggravated temptation in one of Sweden’s biggest crime cases to date.
The Stockholm District Court says “it could not be proven” that Evgeny Pavlov, an worker of Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB, “has betrothed or offering an astray advantage, that is a exigency for a existence of a bribe.”
Pavlov had been indicted of temptation to win a agreement for a signalling complement with a agreement value of around $340 million. He was confronting a six-year jail judgment and deportation.
In 2013, Bombardier was partial of a consortium awarded a agreement to supply signalling apparatus for a 500-kilometre lane along a mezzanine joining Asia and Europe to Azerbaijan Railways.
“He has been acquitted. This is unequivocally positive,” his counsel Cristina Bergner told The Associated Press, adding she had not been means to pronounce to her customer yet.
When Pavlov was expelled Oct. 4 after 7 months in jail, “we knew he would be acquitted.”
He was arrested in Mar and systematic hold in pre-trial control to forestall him from journey or tampering with evidence. Emails seized in Oct 2016 during a hunt of Bombardier offices in Sweden were deliberate justification in a case.
Bergner had regularly pronounced her customer is innocent.
The justice pronounced prosecutors “have not valid that … there was expectancy that a central would impact a railway management in a procurement.”
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