Bombardier worker in Swedish section charged with bribery

A Russian worker in a Swedish bend of Canadian craft and sight builder Bombardier was charged Friday with aggravated temptation and faces adult to 6 years in jail and deportation if found guilty.

Swedish prosecutor Thomas Forsberg alleges Evgeny Pavlov bribed a open menial in Azerbaijan to win a $340-million agreement for a new signalling system.

Most of a appropriation for a plan comes from a World Bank, that is conducting an review on a project.

Pavlov, a Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB worker who is on paid leave, was hold in Mar in pre-trial control to forestall him from journey or tampering with evidence.

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Emails seized during a hunt of Bombardier’s offices in Sweden in Oct 2016 are justification in a case.

In a statement, Bombardier pronounced Friday, “We take these allegations really severely as they claim control that does not simulate a values or a high standards we set for ourselves, a employees and a partners.”

The Montreal-based association pronounced it is reviewing a authorised filings and supports a finish accounting of a contribution and resources surrounding a project.

Forsberg alleges a Azerbaijani officials perceived rewards for carrying lucky a Bombardier contract.

He combined some-more employees with a Swedish bend of Bombardier were still being investigated in propinquity to a same case.

In 2013, Bombardier was partial of a consortium awarded a $288-million agreement to supply signalling apparatus for a 503-kilometre lane along a mezzanine joining Asia and Europe to Azerbaijan Railways. Bombardier pronounced afterwards it was the “first vital signalling agreement in Azerbaijan.”

Pavlov’s lawyer, Cristina Berger, has formerly pronounced that her customer claims he is innocent.

A hearing date has not been set.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombardier-sweden-employee-criminal-charge-1.4253106?cmp=rss