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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
We're bribing them to buy US planes instead of Airbus.
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Bribing? Surely not.
I think such payments are known as 'commissions' in the Middle East.
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BAE Systems, Europe’s largest military contractor, agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two criminal charges and pay nearly $450 million in penalties in the United States and Britain to end long-running investigations into questionable payments made to win huge contracts overseas.
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ETA Have a look at the 'Corruption allegations' section of this Wiki article:
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