US company that worked here to pay US$17.1M fine to settle bribery charges

Louis Berger International Inc, a New-Jersey-based construction management company that won contracts here, will pay a US$17.1 million criminal fine to resolve charges that it bribed officials to win government contracts abroad, the US Justice Department said on Friday, according to Reuters.

Two former executives also pleaded guilty to charges brought under the Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act, the department said.

According to prosecutors, the company and its employees bribed officials in India, Indonesia, Viet-nam and