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Thursday 27 November 2014Total faces fresh corruption charges over Iran contracts
fortune.com - Charges to be filed barely a month after death of CEO, who had led the company’s Mideast ops at the time. Oil major Total SA is to face charges of corruption in France in relations to contracts with Iran in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The news is a disappointment to the company, which had hoped to draw a line under the affair after paying $398 million last year to settle similar charges in the U.S. brought by the Department of Justice. The DoJ had maintained that Total paid around $60 million in bribes between 1995 and 2004 to get contracts for two major Iranian oil and gas projects. After the deal, it had agreed not to prosecute the French group under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The new development comes only a month after Total’s chief executive officer, Christophe de Margerie, was killed as his plane collided with a snowplow on a runway in Moscow. De Margerie had been head of the group’s Middle East exploration and production unit at Total at the time the bribes were made. He had always insisted that neither he nor the company had broken French law. There is no suggestion of any connection between de Margerie’s death and the decision by French prosecutors to bring the issue to trial. The FT reported that the judicial inquiry into the case had started in 2006. |