Bangkok — Thai Airways, Thailand’s flagship airline, said on Thursday that it had launched a probe into revelations that Rolls-Royce paid millions of dollars in bribes to win contracts, including to airline employees and government officials. On the same day, Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency named Emirsyah Satar, the former CEO of the national carrier Garuda Indonesia, a suspect for allegedly receiving bribes from Rolls-Royce while he was head of the airline. The investigations come after the renowned British engine-maker agreed to pay an $808m fine to authorities in Britain, the US and Brazil to settle bribery and corruption claims. After its largest ever graft probe, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) found that Rolls-Royce paid large bribes over three decades to win contracts in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia, Nigeria, China and Malaysia. A British judge this week said the investigation revealed "the most serious breaches of the criminal law in the areas of bribery and co...
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