Pathetic ? Yes.
Typical ? Yes.
Learn a lesson, pay a price for continuous criminal conduct ? No.

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Between 2009 and 2016, Airbus engaged with two main consultants to
facilitate and conceal bribe payments for two campaigns to sell three
C-295 military transport aircraft. One of the consultants used to secure
the sales, was the brother of a high-ranking elected government official
in Ghana. The government official that is allegedly involved in these
sales is former President John Dramani Mahama, and the consultant is
allegedly Samual Adam Foster (aka Samuel Adam Mahama).

During the first campaign to sell two C-295s, Airbus applied to have the
consultant, allegedly Foster, recognized as a business partner, but the
application was rejected by the company's compliance staff because of
the familial ties between him and the official, allegedly Mahama.
Subsequently, senior leadership in SMO International and Airbus Defence
& Space Division falsified documentation in order to use a Spanish
company with no previous ties to Ghana, which seemingly served no other
purpose than to funnel money into the hands of the consultants.

During the second campaign to sell one C-295, Airbus tried to use an
extension of the consultant agreement between Airbus and the Spanish
company from its first campaign, but were unable to because the contract
had expired. As a result, another agreement was created in February 2015
between Airbus and the Spanish company, but the Airbus Liquidation
Committee prevented the contract from being implemented after the
Spanish company declined to participate in a due diligence interview
process, which prevented any further “commission payments” to the
consultants. The Government of Ghana did sign an agreement with Airbus
for one C-295 on 5 March 2015.

The details of this case are loosely transcribed and abbreviated from
the Department Of Justice report, United States of America v. Airbus SE,
released on 28 January 2020 and supplemented by the United Kingdom´s
Royal Courts of Justice report, Director of the Serious Fraud Office and
Airbus SE, released 31 January 2020. These reports anonymized the names
of the actors.

https://corruption-tracker.org/case/airbus-ghana-aircraft-deals
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