"Between 1998 and 2008, Daimler is said to have been "investing" in China, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Latvia, Nigeria, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam (and more!) with the intent of "securing contracts with government customers for the purchase of Daimler vehicles valued at hundreds of millions of dollars."
It's believed that Daimler earned upwards of $50 million by distributing bribes "through shell companies and in one case, Daimler created a specific U.S. shell company to pay bribes."
Other examples include Russia (between 2000-2005), where $5 million was paid to government officials, and Turkmenistan (2000), where a $300,000+ armored S-Class was awarded as a birthday present to a "high-level executive [government] official".
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原文by carscoop
