Don Cleveland of Australia forwarded this recent story about the bribery case involving Securency, the bank note firm with a specialty in the new polymer notes.
-Editor
THE Reserve Bank's bank-note firm paid multimillion-dollar commissions to a senior Vietnamese official in an apparent breach of federal bribery laws that carry a 10-year prison sentence.
Anh Ngoc Luong received more than $5 million in so-called commission payments from the bank's firm Securency.
The payments to Mr Luong and CFTD from Securency are believed to total more than $12 million, some of which was sent to accounts in Switzerland.
The Commonwealth criminal code forbids Australian companies paying foreign officials or government-controlled firms to gain a business advantage.
Securency hired Mr Luong because of his government connections, and he has been Securency's chief government liaison in Vietnam for several years.
Since 2002 Mr Luong has played a big role in a deal in which Vietnam switched its currency from paper-based notes to those made with Securency's patented polymer formula.
To read the complete article, see:
Concern over bank firm's $5m payment
(www.smh.com.au/national/concern-over-bank- firms-5m-payment-20091029-hnqr.html)
Don also forwarded this article about the firm's bribes in Nigeria.
-Editor
Nigeria's National Assembly is to investigate the country's former central bank governor over allegations he was bribed to award a contract to a company controlled by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Nigeria's House of Representatives has passed a motion requesting the assembly's banking and justice committees investigate the Central Bank of Nigeria's previous administrators for "brazen cases'' of corruption, money laundering, reckless spending and issuing of non-performing loans.
A resolution read by representative John Halims Agoda and supported by 46 others said: ''The committees are mandated to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the widely reported claims by the local and international media that a company, Securency, is believed to have paid millions of dollars in bribe money to Nigerian officials to secure the contract to print Nigeria's new banknotes.''
To read the complete article, see:
Nigeria to act on RBA bribe claim
(www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/ nigeria-to-act-on-rba-bribe-claim-20091022-hbfl.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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