Topic
Bribery
54 assessed claims about bribery involving 27 organizations. The labels compare each claim with the record. They do not rate the organizations.
- Supported31
- Partly supported6
- Contradicted5
- Outdated3
- Unresolved7
- Opinion2
- Unresolved61Bain said it did not knowingly participate in state capture and did not act illegally in its work at SARS.
- Unresolved49Reuters reported in December 2025 that ZTE may pay more than US$1 billion to resolve US foreign bribery allegations.
- Opinion55AP reported in June 2025 that opponents of JBS's New York listing cited its record of corruption, monopolistic behavior and environmental destruction.
- Unresolved56Turkcell alleges in its South African lawsuit that MTN paid bribes to South African and Iranian officials to secure its stake in Irancell.
- Partly supported68A January 2025 Bloomberg report carried by swissinfo said Trafigura was convicted of bribery by a Swiss court over payments to an Angolan official.
- Supported88The US Justice Department said in December 2024 that McKinsey Africa agreed to pay bribes to then officials at Transnet and agreed to a criminal penalty of US$122,850,000 under a deferred prosecution agreement.
- Supported88McKinsey said it returned the fees from its Transnet and Eskom work with interest.
- Unresolved70The SEC alleged in November 2024 that Gautam Adani and Sagar Adani were involved in paying or promising bribes to Indian officials and that Adani Green's 2021 offering documents misled investors.
- Partly supported82Public Eye said in August 2024 that Glencore was convicted following corrupt mine deals in the DRC and must pay a penalty of US$152 million.
- Supported92The US Department of Justice said a federal jury convicted former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang in August 2024 and named Privinvest Group executives as co-conspirators who paid bribes.
- Supported87The English Commercial Court ruled on 29 July 2024 that the Mozambique debt was procured by bribery orchestrated by Privinvest and found the Privinvest entities liable to the Republic.
- Contradicted85Privinvest and its owner Iskandar Safa denied any wrongdoing and said any payments were lawful.
- Supported87The US Department of Justice said in March 2024 that Trafigura pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA over bribes to Brazilian officials and would pay over US$126 million.
- Opinion52Gunvor's chairman said in March 2024 that the company upholds an industry-leading compliance programme and that corruption has no place in the company.
- Supported94The US Department of Justice said in March 2024 that Gunvor S.A. pleaded guilty to an FCPA conspiracy over bribes to Ecuadorian officials and would pay over US$661 million.
- Contradicted79Prosecutors who appealed to the STF in 2023 and 2024 took the position that evidence from Odebrecht's leniency systems remains usable in Brazilian proceedings.
- Contradicted91P&ID denied paying bribes and blamed the failure of the gas deal and Nigeria's arbitration loss on institutional incompetence.
- Unresolved49Poder360 reported in September 2023 that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Dias Toffoli annulled all evidence from Odebrecht's 2016 leniency agreement used in Lava Jato accusations and convictions.
- Supported86The SEC found in March 2023 that a consultant working for Rio Tinto on its Simandou rights in Guinea offered an improper payment to a Guinean official and that the payments were not accurately recorded.
- Supported98The US Department of Justice said on 2 March 2023 that Ericsson breached its 2019 DPA and agreed to plead guilty to the deferred FCPA conspiracy charges and pay US$206,728,848.
- Partly supported87OCCRP reported in December 2022 that ABB agreed to pay US$315 million to settle a multinational bribery investigation.
- Supported95The US Justice Department and the SEC said in December 2022 that ABB, through subsidiaries, paid bribes to a South African government official at Eskom in connection with the Kusile power station.
- Supported86ABB said it voluntarily disclosed improper payments on the Kusile project and cooperated fully with the authorities.
- Supported69Airbus said in November 2022 that it agreed a further CJIP with French authorities over past matters related to Libya and Kazakhstan, with a fine of EUR 15,856,044 and no monitorship.
- Supported93Glencore Energy UK Ltd was convicted in England of bribery offences and ordered to pay about GBP 281 million.
- Supported91The US Department of Justice said in May 2022 that Glencore entities pleaded guilty to bribery and market manipulation schemes and agreed to pay over US$1.1 billion.
- Supported73The State Capture Commission found in 2022 that Eskom made settlement payments to McKinsey and Trillian that were unlawful.
- Supported86The DOJ said the Mozambique project contractor paid about US$50 million in kickbacks to bankers at Credit Suisse's UK unit.
- Supported79Eni said in March 2021 that the allegations of international corruption in its Congo probe ceased to exist after the charge was reduced to undue inducement, and that its EUR 11.8 million deal was not an admission of guilt.
- Contradicted82The proposition that Eni and Shell were proven to have paid bribes to Nigerian politicians through the US$1.1 billion OPL 245 payment, as alleged by the Milan prosecutor and summarised by Global Witness in March 2021.
- Outdated64Global Witness said in March 2021 that two middlemen had already been found guilty for their role in the OPL 245 deal in a separate trial.
- Supported82Swedish courts acquitted three former Telia executives of bribery over Uzbekistan in 2019, and the appeal court upheld the acquittals in February 2021.
- Supported91The US Department of Justice said in October 2020 that Goldman Sachs conspired to pay more than US$1.6 billion in bribes in connection with 1MDB bond deals.
- Supported90The US Justice Department said on 14 October 2020 that J&F Investimentos pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and agreed to pay a criminal penalty of more than US$256 million over bribes to Brazilian officials.
- Supported87The US Justice Department said in June 2020 that Novartis Hellas conspired to bribe employees of state-owned and state-controlled hospitals and clinics in Greece.
- Supported83Novartis said in June 2020 that its US resolutions contained no allegations of bribery of Greek politicians, in line with its own internal investigation.
- Supported91The US Justice Department and the UK Serious Fraud Office said in January 2020 that Airbus used third-party business partners and agents to bribe officials and customers to win contracts.
- Outdated64Greek media reported in December 2019 that an Athens court found 22 people guilty in the Siemens and OTE kickback trial and imposed sentences of up to 15 years.
- Supported87The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said in October 2019 that Gunvor was held criminally liable over bribery of public officials in the Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast and must pay almost CHF 94 million.
- Supported94The SEC said in June 2019 that Walmart allowed subsidiaries in Brazil, China, India and Mexico to use third-party intermediaries who made payments to foreign officials without reasonable assurances of FCPA compliance.
- Supported88The US Justice Department said in September 2018 that Petrobras executives facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to Brazilian politicians and parties and concealed them in the company's books.
- Unresolved59Witness testimony placed before the Greek parliament in 2018 alleged that Novartis bribed ten Greek politicians, including two former prime ministers.
- Partly supported79Petrobras said in January 2018 that it was a victim of the Lava Jato scheme.
- Supported95The US Department of Justice said on 21 September 2017 that Telia and its Uzbek subsidiary Coscom agreed to pay more than US$965 million over bribes paid to win business in Uzbekistan.
- Outdated86The UK Serious Fraud Office was investigating the Rio Tinto Group over suspected corruption in its Guinea business, as announced in July 2017.
- Unresolved54Money Times reported in June 2017 that J&F agreed in its leniency agreement with Brazil's Federal Prosecution Service to pay BRL 10.3 billion over 25 years, and this remains the amount J&F must pay.
- Contradicted81An April 2017 Africanews headline said Shell admitted paying bribes to a former Nigerian petroleum minister in the OPL 245 deal.
- Supported89The US Department of Justice said in December 2016 that Odebrecht paid about US$788 million in bribes to government officials, their representatives and political parties.
- Supported82The US Justice Department said in March 2016 that Olympus Corp. of the Americas would pay US$623.2 million to resolve kickback charges and claims, and that its Latin America unit would pay US$22.8 million over foreign bribery.
- Supported93The US Department of Justice said on 18 February 2016 that VimpelCom and Unitel would pay more than US$795 million in US and Dutch penalties over bribes paid in Uzbekistan.
- Partly supported77An Associated Press report of 21 April 2012, relaying a New York Times investigation, said Wal-Mart investigators in Mexico found hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than US$24 million and that the company ended its internal probe.
- Supported67Siemens said in April 2012 that its settlement with the Greek state, ratified by the Hellenic Parliament, would reach about EUR 270 million.
- Partly supported85US authorities said in December 2008 that Siemens paid about US$1.4 billion in bribes to government officials around the world.
- Supported94The US Justice Department said in December 2008 that Siemens would pay US$800 million to US authorities and about EUR 395 million in Munich.