Questions about Alstom's participation in the 2010 and 2013 Railway tenders for the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura -from General Electric whistleblower Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 - in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court

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From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:07 PM
Subject: Questions about Alstom's participation in the 2010 and 2013
Railway tenders for the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura -from
General Electric whistleblower Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil)
1280/ 2012 - in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company
and Others in the Delhi High Court
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To the Prime Minister, the Minister for Railways and to the Chairman
of the Railway Board,

I attach at the end of this email several news reports about bribery
and corruption charges against Alstom in several countries since 2010.
The bribery probe concerning Alstom is according to news reports
likely to extend also to China and India.

How then did the Railway Board short-list Alstom India for the tender
for the electric locomotive factory Project at Madhepura in 2010 in
just seven working days after the RFQ applications were submitted?

And why has the Railway Board again accepted an RFQ bid for the
electric locomotive factory Project from Alstom in 2013?

All, WP Civil 1280 of 2012 was listed for hearing before the Division
Bench of Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra amd Justice S P Garg today in
the Delhi High Court. When the matter was called out, Justice S K
Misra stated at the outset, before any submissions were made by
anyone, that the Bench did not want to hear the matter. He did not
disclose any reason. Accordingly the matter will now be listed before
another Bench on 29 April 2014.

The news reports about Alstom follow below and are also attached in a
word document.

Seema Sapra




Fri, Mar 28 2014. 12 14 AM IST

Alstom graft probe widens to India, China projects

US building bribery case against Alstom that is likely to result in
one of the largest US anti-corruption enforcement actions


Alstom had set aside €39 million as of March 2013 to cover bribery
probes and legal matters, according to a company report. Photo: AFP

Washington: The US justice department is building a bribery case
against Alstom SA, the French maker of trains and power equipment,
that is likely to result in one of the largest US anticorruption
enforcement actions, according to two people with knowledge of the
probe.

Alstom, which has a history chequered with corruption allegations, has
hindered the US investigation of possible bribery in Indonesia and now
faces an expanded probe including power projects in China and India,
according to court documents in a related case. Settlement talks
haven't begun, the company said.

Alstom, which is based in Levallois-Perret, had set aside €39 million
($54 million) as of March 2013 to cover bribery probes and legal
matters, according to a company report. That's likely to fall far
short of what the company will need to settle the US case, according
toMichael Volkov, a former federal prosecutor who estimates Alstom
could face penalties that rival Siemens AG's $800 million settlement
with the US in 2008.

The question for this case will be is it going to exceed Siemens in
the scope of the penalty and scope of the violation, Volkov, who now
runs the Volkov Law Group LLC and isn't involved in the case, said in
an interview. The problem for this company is that there's an absence
of acknowledgment that they have a problem and without remediation and
cooperation a big company is destined to get smashed.

Robert Luskin, Alstom's lawyer at Patton Boggs LLP in Washington, said
the company is cooperating with prosecutors.

"It's impossible to say at this point what the parameters of the
potential settlement might be, what projects it might encompass or how
large it will be," Luskin said in an interview. "Any effort to do that
would just be speculation at this point."

Peter Carr, a justice department spokesman, declined to comment.

Cases enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act have drawn attention
in recent years for the magnitude of corporate penalties they command.
Among the largest US penalties for foreign bribery are KBR Inc.'s $579
million settlement in 2009 and Alcoa Inc.'s $384 million penalty
earlier this year.

US prosecutors have dozens of open bribery investigations, including
probes of financial firms' hiring practices in Asia and whether
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. systematically paid off officials in Mexico and
elsewhere to open stores more quickly.

Alstom has been investigated by multiple countries since 2004 when
auditors for the Swiss Federal Banking Commission unearthed documents
showing possible corrupt payments. Since then, the company has paid
more than $53 million over claims its employees bribed officials in at
least five countries. In addition to the US, Alstom is being
investigated by the UK and Brazil.

As part of a 2012 resolution with the World Bank, which sanctioned
Alstom for improper payments in Zambia, two of its units were barred
from public tenders financed by the bank for three years.

The US probe of Alstom has centered on a $118 million contract to
provide boiler services at a power plant on the Indonesian island of
Sumatra. Alstom executives, together with Marubeni Corp., a Japanese
commodity-trading company, used middlemen to funnel hundreds of
thousands of dollars to a member of Indonesia's parliament and
officials at Perusahaan Listrik Negara PT, a state-controlled
electricity company known as PLN, according to court papers filed by
the justice department.

While investigating that deal, the Justice Department found evidence
of possible bribery in 10 other energy projects in Indonesia, India
and China, according to documents filed in a case against William
Pomponi, the former vice-president of regional sales at Alstom's
Connecticut unit, who is scheduled to go to trial in June.

Prosecutors cited a November 2002 e-mail chain in which Alstom
employees discussed a plan to cover all of those listed on a roster of
key managers at China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, to
ensure Alstom was invited to bid on a contract. Pomponi claimed more
than $17,000 in expenses to entertain a Chinese delegation, according
to court papers filed by the government. Pomponi has denied the
allegations.

Prosecutors have said that Alstom hasn't been forthcoming.

At a 20 November hearing in Pomponi's case, Assistant US attorney
David Novick said the government was still waiting for documents on
myriad other projects.

"The company really hasn't been cooperating," Novick said. "They have
in fits and starts complied with the grand jury subpoena, and only
very recently have they actually begun to make inroads toward being
more cooperative."

In the meantime, prosecutors have worked to secure cooperators to aid
their case. Of four former Alstom executives who have been charged,
two have already pleaded guilty and agreed to help prosecutors.
Marubeni also pleaded guilty to bribery violations on 19 March and
said it would cooperate with the investigation.

Luskin, Alstom's attorney, said cooperation has improved.

"There were clearly problems between the company and DOJ initially
before we were retained," Luskin said. "What we hear back from the
government is that they're satisfied with the direction and the level
of our efforts and frankly that has gotten better and better over
time."

As evidence of Alstom's legal problems mounted, FCPA (Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act) lawyers compared the company to its German competitor
Siemens, which paid more than $1.6 billion in civil and criminal
penalties globally to resolve bribery investigations.

Alstom, which was rescued from near bankruptcy by the French
government in 2004, had a real problem and changed their policies in
the last year or two, Jacques Terray, vice-president of Transparency
International France and a former partner at French law firm Gide
Loyrette Nouel, said in an interview.

"For a long time they didn't pay enough attention to those types of
things," he said.

Three of the 10 largest bribery penalties paid in the US involve
French companies: Total SA's $398 million payment last year, Technip
SA's $338 million settlement in 2010 and a $137 million penalty
against Alcatel-Lucent SA the same year. BNP Paribas SA, France's
largest bank, said last month it set aside $1.1 billion in potential
costs related to a probe that it dealt with sanctioned countries or
entities.

"The French saying 'oh, we won't bother with that, we won't apply
it'—those days are gone," Terray said. "Simple realism showed them
that it doesn't work like that anymore. Or they have to say 'I won't
work in the US anymore.'" Bloomberg



United States: Marubeni Plea Agreement Suggests There May Be More FCPA
Charges To Come

Last Updated: April 3 2014

Article by Charles S. Leeper and Gregory A. Mason

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

In a March 19, 2014 Plea Agreement, the Japanese trading company
Marubeni Corporation agreed to plead guilty in the U.S. District
Court for the District of Connecticut to a criminal information
charging a conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
and seven substantive violations of the Act's anti-bribery
provisions. Marubeni also agreed to pay an $88 million fine. The
charges stem from Marubeni's participation in an alleged scheme to
bribe Indonesian government officials to secure a $118 million energy
contract for a power plant on Sumatra.

The Marubeni Plea Agreement comes on the heels of FCPA charges being
filed against several former executives of Alstom SA, Marubeni's
partner on the Indonesian power project and alleged co-conspirator, a
number of whom have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the
investigation. Alstom itself has not yet been charged, but Alstom has
stated that it is cooperating with the Department of Justice's
investigation.

The only specific conduct by Marubeni employees alleged in the
Information are statements in a series of provocative but ambiguous
emails between Marubeni and Alstom personnel regarding consultants the
two companies retained to facilitate contract negotiations with
Indonesia's state-controlled electric company. Whether Marubeni's
Plea Agreement and cooperation will provide the evidence necessary for
DOJ to charge any Marubeni executives is unclear. However, it is
notable that the 2012 Indictment of Alstom executive Frederic Pierucci
was sealed until his 2013 arrest when he attempted to enter the United
States at New York JFK airport. The DOJ may well have employed the
same strategy – sealing FCPA charges against individual defendants –
in the hopes of ensnaring the Marubeni executives who are in DOJ's
cross-hairs.

The prosecution of Marubeni, a Japanese company, once again
demonstrates the broad reach of FCPA enforcement, which has been
extended to target foreign defendants for predominantly foreign
conduct, aimed at foreign markets. According to the Marubeni
Information, however, the alleged co-conspirator, Alstom, used
American bank accounts to pay consultants who allegedly bribed
Indonesian officials.

The charges in this investigation also illustrate the government's
continued focus on the use of third-party agents and consultants to
make payments to foreign government officials. There should be little
doubt about the wisdom of investing in robust due diligence of
potential business partners, especially when doing business in
countries such as Indonesia with a well-deserved reputation for
corruption.

Alstom Executive Arrested on Bribery Charges



By

CHRISTOPHER M. MATTHEWS

Updated April 16, 2013 6:35 p.m. ET

The U.S. Justice Department said it arrested an executive of French
engineering firmAlstom SA at New York's John F. Kennedy International
Airport Sunday evening, and charged him with participating in a
bribery scheme to win business in Indonesia.

Prosecutors charged Alstom executive Frederic Pierucci, a French
national, in an indictment unsealed Monday in federal court in
Connecticut, according to court documents. The Justice Department also
revealed that a former Alstom executive, David Rothschild, pleaded
guilty in November to charges emanating from the same bribery scheme.

The airport arrest of a foreign citizen highlights the Justice
Department's aggressive enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act, a 1977 law that prohibits bribes to foreign officials to win
business.



Alstom, which owns a factory in the U.K., said that it had "been
working constructively with the Department of Justice for the last two
years." Bloomberg News

The Justice Department didn't refer to Alstom in court documents or a
news release, describing the current or former employer of Messrs.
Pierucci and Rothschild only as a "French power and transportation
company." But prior public statements by Alstom indicate the men
worked for the company, and a person briefed on the investigation
confirmed that Mr. Pierucci was a current employee and Mr. Rothschild
a former employee. Both men previously worked for Alstom's
Connecticut-based U.S. subsidiary, according to the person, who added
that Mr. Pierucci subsequently moved to Alstom operations overseas.

In a statement Tuesday, Alstom said it had "been working
constructively with the Department of Justice for the last two years
to address any allegations of past misconduct."

"As with any individual, Mr. Pierucci is entitled to the presumption
of innocence and we urge everyone to respect the judicial process,
which will provide a full and fair opportunity for the facts to be
adjudicated," the company said.

Mr. Pierucci, 45 years old, was charged with violating and conspiring
to violate the FCPA as well as money laundering. Mr. Rothschild, 67,
pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the FCPA. Mr.
Rothschild is a U.S. citizen, according to court documents. The
federal act applies to U.S. citizens and persons working in the U.S.,
and also covers companies with significant U.S. operations.

Lawyers for Messrs. Pierucci and Rothschild declined to comment.

The Justice Department has ramped up FCPA enforcement recently. In
2011, prosecutors charged eight foreign businessmen on charges they
bribed officials in Argentina in order to win a big government
contract for Siemens AG . In a related settlement, the German
engineering firm in 2008 pleaded guilty to FCPA violations and agreed
to pay a record $1.6 billion in fines. The businessmen, who couldn't
be reached for comment, haven't been extradited and remain overseas.
Siemens has said it is cooperating with U.S. authorities.

According to the indictment against Mr. Pierucci and the criminal
information on Mr. Rothchild, the two men paid bribes to officials in
Indonesia, including to a member of the Indonesian Parliament and
high-ranking members of Perusahaan Listrik Negara, a state-owned
Indonesian electricity company, to help secure a contract as a
power-services provider. Messrs. Pierucci and Rothschild allegedly
paid the bribes through two consultants in order to hide the payments.

One of the consultants allegedly received hundreds of thousands of
dollars in a Maryland bank account to be used to bribe the Parliament
member, according to the documents. Messrs. Pierucci and Rothschild
hired the second consultant after determining the first consultant
wasn't effectively bribing officials at the state-owned electricity
company, the documents said.

Alstom has been the subject of several international corruption
probes. A Swiss subsidiary of Alstom settled corruption-related
charges with Swiss authorities in 2011 and paid a $42.7 million fine.
Law-enforcement officials in the U.K. have also been investigating
Alstom, and arrested three executives of the company's U.K. subsidiary
in 2010. The three men haven't been charged with any crimes.

Alstom previously said it welcomed the Swiss settlement and is
cooperating with authorities in the U.K. The person briefed on the
latest investigation said Alstom remains in discussions authorities in
both the U.S. and the U.K.





Alstom Said to Face U.K. Bribery Charges After Five-Year Probe

By Suzi Ring - Feb 19, 2014

Alstom SA (ALO), the French maker of trains and power equipment, will
be charged in the U.K. over bribery allegations after a five-year
investigation, according to two people with knowledge of the case.

The Serious Fraud Office may ask the attorney general to approve
charges in the coming weeks, a standard requirement for the agency to
prosecute some offenses, according to the people, who asked not to be
identified because the case is private.

The company has been the subject of corruption investigations in the
last five years spanning France, Switzerland, Brazil and the U.S. The
train maker was fined 38.9 million Swiss francs ($43.8 million) in
2011 by the Swiss Attorney General's office over bribes paid in
Latvia, Malaysia and Tunisia. The French inquiry was closed in 2009.

"We inherited this investigation," David Green, the director of the
SFO since April 2012, said in an interview this month. "It has been
given resource and tight focus. I anticipate significant developments
in due course."

The SFO said in 2011 it suspected that Alstom gave money to companies
that acted as "bogus consultants" to bribe overseas officials for
contracts from 2004 to 2010, according to court papers at the time.
The agency arrested three members of Alstom's board in the U.K. in
2010 over allegations of bribery, money laundering and false
accounting.

Claire Biau, a spokeswoman for Alstom, declined to comment.

Fine, Debarment

The Levallois-Perret, France-based maker of power generation and
transmission equipment, trains, trams and subway cars, faces penalties
ranging from a fine to a ban from competing for public contracts in
the European Union, if it's successfully prosecuted.

The U.K. case against two of the executives who were arrested --
Stephen Burgin, the unit's president, and Robert Purcell, its finance
director -- has been dropped, their lawyer, Shaul Brazil, said. The
third man died in April 2010.

The company is facing mounting probes in other countries, as well. In
Sao Paulo, a public prosecutor is preparing to ask a judge to halt
Alstom's operations in Brazil and cancel its registration in the
country after the company was accused of paying bribes, an official
familiar with the case said last month. The country's Federal Justice
opened a criminal lawsuit on Feb. 18 against 11 people accused of
participating in paying the bribes.

'Top Slice'

In the U.K., the SFO is under increased pressure after a number of
failed corruption prosecutions. A case against British businessman
Victor Dahdaleh, accused of paying about 40 million pounds in bribes
to senior executives of a Bahrain-owned aluminum company, collapsed
halfway through the trial in December.

BAE Systems Plc (BA/), Europe's biggest defense company, was sentenced
to pay a 500,000-pound ($833,000) fine in 2010 after a six-year
bribery investigation. U.S. authorities fined BAE $400 million for
similar offenses.

The SFO's strategy should be to go after complex bribery and
corruption cases, Green said when he became director. The agency is
investigating bribery allegations at companies including Eurasian
Natural Resources Corp. and Rolls-Royce Holdings (RR/) Plc. The U.K.
prosecutor arrested two men and searched several properties in London
in connection with the Rolls-Royce investigation last week.

Green "has reiterated that its remit is to deal with the 'top slice'
of economic crime," said Matthew Bruce, a London-based lawyer at
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. "The SFO will now be keen to bring
a number of successful prosecutions against corporates in 2014, so it
can put a tough few years behind it and try and demonstrate that it is
a prosecutor with teeth."

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sring5@bloomberg.net

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hsmith26@bloomberg.net; Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net

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Three directors of rail engineering firm Alstom held in bribery investigation

Directors arrested in dawn raids over allegations concerning
substantial bribes being paid to secure contracts abroad

Sandra Laville and Rob Evans



The Guardian, Wednesday 24 March 2010 18.12 GMT



Workers outside the Alstom maintenance depot in Chester, north-west
England Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Three UK directors of the engineering firm Alstom were arrested in
dawn raids by fraud investigators and police officers today over
allegations concerning substantial bribes being paid to secure
contracts abroad.

In one of the biggest co-ordinated operations by the Serious Fraud
Office for several years, the men, all of whom are directors of Alstom
subsidiary companies in Britain, were seized from their beds at 5am on
suspicion of bribery, corruption, money laundering and false
accounting.

Simultaneous raids occurred at five Alstom offices – in London, Rugby,
Ashby de la Zouch, Derby and Knutsford.

More than 100 SFO staff and 40 police officers were involved in the
operation, codenamed Ruthenium, which included searches at nine sites.

The three men were named as Stephen Burgin, 52, Altan Cledwyn-Davies,
51, and Robert Purcell, 44. They were arrested at their homes in
Stafford, Telford and Melton Mowbray, respectively, and taken to local
police stations where they were questioned by SFO investigators. All
three were on the boards of Alstom UK Holdings Ltd, Alstom Ltd and
Alstom Network UK Ltd. The three men were all released without charge
last night.

A spokesman for the SFO said: "It is suspected that bribes have been
paid in order to win contracts overseas, and that this has involved
associated money-laundering and other offences."

The raids come as the SFO has become more vigorous in its attempts to
crack down on corrupt payments by British firms.

Richard Alderman, the SFO director, said after today'sraids: "The SFO
is committed to tackling corruption. We are working closely with other
criminal justice organisations across the world and are taking steps
to encourage companies to report any suspicions of corruption, either
within their own business or by other companies or individuals."

Alstom, a French engineering company, which constructs high-speed
trains and power stations, was saved from bankruptcy in 2004 when
Nicolas Sarkozy, then France's finance minister, organised a state
bailout. The firm is already the subject of investigations by the
French and Swiss authorities into allegations of bribery and
corruption.

The SFO has launched its own investigation into Alstom, although it is
working closely with the Swiss.

Alstom said: "Local managers are being questioned. Alstom has been
investigated by the Swiss justice for more than three years on the
motive of alleged bribery issues. Within this frame, Alstom's offices
in Switzerland and France have already been searched in the past
years. Alstom is co-operating with the British authorities."

For years the British government has been criticised for failing to
prosecute a single company for the offence of paying bribes to foreign
politicians and officials. But in the last six months the SFO has
notched up what Alderman regards as three successes.

Last September the bridge builders Mabey and Johnson became the first
large British company to be convicted of foreign bribery. The firm
admitted that it had systemically paid bribes around the world to
secure export orders, and it was ordered to pay more than £6.5m in
penalties.

Corrupt payments to ministers and officials in Ghana, Jamaica, Angola,
Madagascar, Mozambique, Iraq and Bangladesh were exposed in court.

In February, the arms manufacturer BAE agreed to pay almost £300m in
penalties for its wrongdoing. The admission ended years of SFO and US
department of justice investigations into alleged kickbacks.

Today a high court judge, Mr Justice Collins, refused to allow
campaigners from the Campaign Against Arms Trade and the
anti-corruption group, Corner House, to challenge the legality of the
settlement deal with BAE.

The campaigners are considering whether to appeal.

Last week, the Cheshire-based chemical company Innospec admitted
paying bribes to Indonesian officials in order to boost sales of a
chemical that had been banned from general sale in Britain.

The multinational company also admitted making corrupt payments to
prevent a poisonous product, leaded petrol, from being outlawed in the
Asian country.



Alstom UK directors arrested in SFO bribery investigation

Three UK board members of Alstom, the French engineering group, have
been arrested on suspicion of bribery and corruption after raids by
the Serious Fraud Office.



Three Alstom UK directors have been arrested as part of an SFO
investigation into bribery and corruption. The picture shows a Turbine
blade made by Alstom in Britain.

By Graham Ruddick

10:49AM GMT 24 Mar 2010

Alstom has contracts to build four power stations in the UK, such as
at Staythorpe, Nottinghamshire, and the SFO said in a statement it
suspected that bribes have been paid by Alstom's UK operations in
order to win contracts overseas "and that this has involved associated
money laundering and other offences".

The unnamed individuals, aged 52, 51 and 44, have positions on the
board of Alstom UK Holding Ltd, Alstom Ltd, and Alstom Network UK Ltd.
They are being questioned on suspicion of "bribery and corruption,
conspiracy to pay bribes, money laundering and false accounting".

The SFO's operation, codenamed Operation Ruthenium, involved 109 staff
from the agency and 44 police officers, with raids at five business
properties and four residential addresses across the UK on Wednesday
morning.

Alstom has been investigated by officials in Switzerland for more than
three years on bribery allegations, with offices searched in
Switzerland and France. Reports have linked the investigation to
contract wins in Asia and South America.

In a statement on its website, Alstom, which also works in transport,
confirmed that its offices had been raided and said British police
"apparently executed search warrants upon the request of the Swiss
Federal justice".

It added: "Alstom is co-operating with the British authorities."
Richard Alderman, SFO director, said his organisation was "working
closely with other criminal justice organisations across the world".



Three directors of rail engineering firm Alstom arrested for bribery
and corruption

By KARL WEST
UPDATED: 09:29 GMT, 25 March 2010



Three directors of one of Britain's best known companies have been
arrested over a £90m bribery and corruption campaign to secure foreign
contracts.

Alstom UK president Stephen Burgin, finance director Robert Purcell
and legal director Altan Cledwyn Davies were hauled in for questioning
about the alleged payment of bribes to secure transport and power
deals in Africa and the Far East.

The arrests followed a dawn raid on nine premises. The swoop was
co-ordinated by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and police forces
across the UK.



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Arrests: A police officer leaves the London office of French
engineering group Alstom today after three members of the board in
Britain were arrested on suspicion of bribery and corruption

It included business addresses in London, Warwickshire,
Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Cheshire, plus four residential
properties in Staffordshire, Shropshire, Leicestershire and London.

The SFO said the three men arrested were released on police bail.

Burgin, 52, lives in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire as does finance
director Robert Purcell, 44. Legal director Altan Cledwyn Davies, 51,
lives in Telford, Shropshire.

The raids follow a six month investigation by the SFO, which launched
the probe after being alerted by Swiss authorities.

It is claimed the three channelled around £90million, for the payment
of bribes, from the UK and Switzerland.

A source close to the investigation did not rule out making further arrests.

Burgin, who is married and has three daughters, has worked in the
engineering industry for more than 30 years and has been head of
Alstom UK since January 2008.

He studied electrical engineering at Staffordshire University, where
he is the current chair of governors. He is also a Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology.



Contracts: A train stands outside the Alstom maintenance depot in
Chester, north-west England today

The French group, which makes power equipment and high speed trains,
employs around 5,000 people in the UK at more than 30 different
locations.

Most notably, the UK business maintains the Virgin Trains Pendolino
fleet as well as the trains on two lines of the London Underground.

Codenamed Operation Ruthenium, after the chemical element, the
investigation by the SFO is into the suspected payment of bribes by
companies within the Alstom group in the UK.

These companies are thought to include Alstom UK Holdings, Alstom
Limited, and Alstom Network UK - the three accused are all board
members of these companies.

The claims also include money laundering and other offences, such as
false accounting.

The SFO worked closely with the Office of the Attorney General and
Federal Police in Switzerland, plus a number of UK police forces.

Today's dawn raids on the nine properties involved 109 SFO staff and
44 police officers and financial investigators from the Warwickshire,
Leicestershire, Cheshire, West Mercia and Staffordshire police forces
and the Metropolitan Police.

A statement on Alstom's website today read: 'The police have
apparently executed search warrants upon the Swiss Federal justice
request.

'Alstom has been investigated by the Swiss justice for more than three
years on the motive of alleged bribery issues.

'Within this frame, Alstom's offices in Switzerland and France have
already been searched in the past years.

'Alstom is co-operating with the British authorities.'

SFO director Richard Alderman said: 'The SFO is committed to tackling
corruption. We are working closely with other criminal justice
organisations across the world and are taking steps to encourage
companies to report any suspicions of corruption, either within their
own business or by other companies or individuals.'

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