Russian-Norwegian Vimpelcom, based in the Netherlands, must now pay $ 795 million (6.7 billion). It is described as one of the largest settlements ever of its kind and gives an indication of what can wait TeliaSonera.
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In a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) also shows that the authorities claim the equivalent 4.6 billion in frozen accounts in Switzerland. DOJ says that the money “represents bribes paid by Vimpelcom and two other telecom companies.”
According to the Reuters news agency, the Department stated that the case of TeliaSonera and MTS.
Prosecutor Gunnar Stetler investigating Telia mutmisstänkta business. In the case of the DOJ refers to just the two he answers:
I can not see any other alternative.
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Stetler has however, no information about a similar deal with Telia is imminent. Telia has long been investigated by US authorities are not news. The company claims to cooperate fully with the authorities.
As soon as we have any information about a settlement, we will communicate it. Today we have no such indication, says Telia’s communications director Peter Borsos said.
He is assuming that TeliaSonera is one of the companies that DOJ refers to in its press release.
DOJ says that it is an “Uzbek government officials” who have been bribed. Obviously, these are about the dictator’s daughter Gulnara Karimova, Telia suspected bribing of at least 2.2 billion.
The scandal was revealed by SVT’s Mandate Review in September 2012. The following month TT could reveal precisely that Telia, MTS and Vimpelcom all had done business with the same circuit around Karimova.
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