{"id":322812,"date":"2010-02-15T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/daimler-willing-to-plead-guilty-and-pay-200m-for-bribery-accusations-16855.html"},"modified":"2010-02-15T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:09:37","slug":"daimler-willing-to-plead-guilty-and-pay-200m-for-bribery-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322812","title":{"rendered":"Daimler Willing to Plead Guilty and Pay $200M for Bribery Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/daimler-willing-to-plead-guilty-and-pay-200-m-for-bribery-accusations-16855-3.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>Daimler AG admitted that it has used bribing to smooth certain African, Asian and Eastern European business development pathways, as Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p> The company agreed to pay $200 million and two of its subsidies will plead guilty to end an U.S. investigation. It appears that Daimler has kept secret accounts at banks in the aforementioned regions for making illicit payments to state authorities. Daimler&#8217;s problems started in 2004, when David J. Bazetta, an auditor for the former Daimler-Ch&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/daimler-willing-to-plead-guilty-and-pay-200m-for-bribery-accusations-16855.html\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler AG admitted that it has used bribing to smooth certain African, Asian and Eastern European business development pathways, as Bloomberg reports. The company agreed to pay $200 million and two of its subsidies will plead guilty to end an U.S. investigation. It appears that Daimler has kept secret accounts at banks in the aforementioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}