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Former Bombardier exec charged over Azerbaijan rail-project 'bribes'

By Martin Coyle
  • 09 Jun 2021 08:48
  • 09 Jun 2021 08:48
A former Bombardier Transportation executive in Sweden has been charged with bribery offenses over a $350 million railway project that the company carried out in Azerbaijan.

Thomas Bimer, a former manager at the engineering company, has been charged with bribery and faces a criminal trial in Stockholm, a Swedish prosecutor confir

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Martin Coyle

Senior Correspondent


Martin Coyle is a senior correspondent, based in MLex's London office, reporting daily on bribery and corruption issues in the UK and Europe. Previously he was a senior editor at Thomson Reuters where he covered anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory enforcement issues. Prior to that he was editor of The Accountant, the world's oldest accounting publication, and International Accounting Bulletin, a bi-monthly business journal owned by Lafferty.

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