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CLARÍN GROUP FINED FOR COIMER

U.S. Techint was fined for paying bribes

While opens manufacturing plants in Mexico, where the group invested u $ s 850 million, Paolo Rocca, Techint holder, faces serious legal problems en los Estados Unidos: deberá abonar una multa de u$s 8,9 millones por pagar coimas.

Según publica hoy Tiempo Argentino, Tenaris, una de las empresas del grupo que se niega tozudamente a que el Estado participe con sus representantes en el directorio de Techint, pagó coimas a funcionarios gubernamentales de Uzbekistán para hacerse de diferentes obras en ese país.

La maniobra fraudulenta fue detectada por la Comisión Nacional de Valores de Estados Unidos y por el FBI, de modo que la multinacional se vio forzada a llegar a un acuerdo extrajudicial por medio del cual deberá abonar u$s 8,9 millones de multa por realizar "prácticas corrupt ".

Thus, Tenaris, the largest manufacturer of steel tubes Techint controls, admitted to the U.S. justice system that made" improper payments "to officials O'ztashqineftgaz OJSC (OAO), a state of Uzbekistan , Central Asia country that belonged to the Soviet Union dismembered.

According to the report drafted Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division Department of Justice of the United States, executives of Tenaris (majority shareholder Siderar) offered him a commission of 3.5% for insider information on four businesses, which enabled him to revise its own offer and awarded several contracts from the government of Uzbekistan.

As the aforementioned newspaper, public procurement is related to the provision of oilfield pipe and related services for projects of energy extraction and transportation, which allowed the Argentine-Italian multinational based legal extraordinary gain in Luxembourg.

To avoid a multimillion dollar lawsuit, the company agreed to pay $ s 5,428,338 in repayments and interest on the damage, within 30 days by check or cash to the Commission Securities and Exchange of the United States have, in addition a fine of $ s 3.5 million for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Abroad, established in the law of the United States.