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DaimlerChrysler Is Committed Ex-FBI Chief As Reconnaissance

Not only Siemens is trying its Schmiergeldaffäre to grips with. DaimlerChrysler is also under pressure because of corruption - especially in the United States. Now an external consultant with the Enlightenment and to assist the authorities mild vote: Ex-FBI Chief Freeh.
Detroit - He is regarded as a specialist in difficult cases. Since his retirement as director of the U.S. federal police in 2001, FBI Louis Freeh works as a lawyer for the Gavel Consulting Group, based on the advice of companies specializing in the target of the authorities advised. Freeh also be one internal investigations at DaimlerChrysler forward, but also the interests of the outside world.
AP
DaimlerChrysler cars of the Jeep brand: Incorrect payments in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe Two years ago the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission SEC investigations against on the New York Stock Exchange
Group recorded for failing managers in more than a dozen
Countries have paid bribes. It also involves the
Unregelmßigkeiten tax payments for expatriate
Employees.
In March, the prosecutor Stuttgart
Investigative proceedings for supplies of Unregelmßigkeiten
Vehicles to Poland, Belgium and Ghana at. In addition, the Group acknowledged internal investigations had revealed
that, especially in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe unsachgemße payments
done. More than a dozen executives were in the
Anti-corruption investigations on leave or dismissed.
opposite the "Wall Street Journal said DaimlerChrysler spokesman Han Tjan Freehs independence. "We try very concerned about educating the incidents," said Han. For one grßten attach importance to high ethical standards.
But the understanding with the authorities played at the commissioning Freehs an equally important role. Mild vote should particular, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC.
Overall, the automobile manufacturer paid so far 16 million U.S. dollars in fines. And the membership of the anti-corruption organization Transparency International has suspended - a similar exclusion as in the case of the Siemens group is not excluded. mik / Reuters

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