As most compliance practitioners know Siemens AG paid not only the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) fine in the history of the world at $800MM but also paid the same amount to the German government, this makes for a total fine of $1.6bn back in 2008 when that was real money. In addition to these fines and penalties the New York Times (NYT), in an article entitled “The Mounting Costs of Internal Investigations”, stated that Siemens “reported incurring costs of more than $1 billion for a global inquiry into payment of bribes to foreign officials to win business.” In other words, it cost Siemens an uber amount money to clean up this huge mess.
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