英重大不正捜査局、リオティントのギニア汚職疑惑を捜査（economiaより）

SFO launches investigation into Rio Tinto payment

英豪資源大手リオティントのギニア共和国での汚職疑惑について、英重大不正捜査局（SFO）が捜査を開始したという記事。

Anglo Australia mining company Rio Tinto has said that it will fully cooperate with the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into suspected corruption in its operations in the Republic of Guinea

会社の発表文によれば、会社自ら、昨年11月、疑問のある支払いについて、SEO、米司法省、オーストラリア連邦警察などに通報し、それ以後それら当局に協力してきたのだそうです。

In a short statement released yesterday, the group pointed out that it self-reported a questionable payment to the SFO and other authorities, including the US Department of Justice and the Australian Federal Police, last November, and had been working with them since then.

これは、リオティントのエネルギー・鉱業部門の当時のトップが、世界最大級のギニアSimandouの鉄鉱石鉱床をめぐる交渉のために、10.5百万ドルを支払うことを同僚と話し合っている2011年のメールがリークされ、明らかにされたものです。

The payment came to light in leaked emails dating from 2011 in which Alan Davies, the then head of Rio’s energy and minerals division, discussed with senior colleagues a payment of $10.5m (£8m) made to former Lazards banker François Polge de Combret for negotiating with the Guinea government over Simandou, one of the world’s largest untapped iron ore deposits.

At the time of the payment, Davies was responsible for the Simandou project.

こちらは、ブリティッシュ・アメリカン・タバコ社のケニアでの汚職疑惑の捜査を、SFOが開始したという記事。
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SFO opens investigation into British American Tobacco（economia）

In 2015, former BAT employee in Kenya Paul Hopkins told the BBC that he had paid bribes on behalf of the tobacco company, and that it was the price of doing business in that region.

こちらは、アメリカのHalliburton社が、アンゴラでの汚職に対して29百万ドルの罰金をSECから課せられたという記事。
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Halliburton fined $29m over Angolan payments（economia）

The US oil services group has paid out $29.2m (£22.35m) to the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle corruption charges in Angola

According to the SEC, Halliburton made around $14m profit from winning lucrative oilfield services contracts in Angola through selecting and making payments to a local company in Angola in breach of the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

外国での汚職に対して、厳しく捜査し処分するという英米当局の姿勢は、維持されているようです。