Prosecutors allege that Elf executives stole hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds the company used to bribe Third World leaders, both to secure oil supplies and spread French influence.
FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter, was cleared of criminal or ethical wrongdoing in a case involving millions of dollars in bribes for World Cup contracts.
They will stop at nothing to come here: demonising and imprisoning refugees, bribing third world countries to build offshore hellholes, trampling on press freedom, discrediting human rights organisations, capitalising on voters' xenophobic fears, commissioning propaganda, bleating three word slogans and even kissing unwilling babies.
A Swiss prosecutor said in a legal document released last year that Blatter's predecessor, João Havelange, and the former Fifa executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira took multimillion-dollar bribes on World Cup deals in the 1990s from the now defunct rights agency which went bust in 2001.
A Swiss prosecutor said in a legal document released last year that Blatter's predecessor, João Havelange, and the former Fifa executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira took multimillion-dollar bribes on World Cup deals in the 1990s from the now defunct rights agency ISL.
The Vietnamese Socialist Party, which was affiliated to the Hòa Hảo, claimed Diệm had "bribed the world of laborers and young students to petition in support of Diem's rise to chief-of-state and to petition in favor of deposing Bao Dai", using the American election funding.
The German conglomerate Siemens paid $800 million in fines in 2008 and disgorgement for having dispensed nearly $1.4 billion in bribes across the world.
The documents had been compiled during a six-year investigation into allegations that BAE had paid bribes around the world to secure lucrative arms contracts.
In May, 18 football and marketing executives were charged by the US Department of Justice accused of siphoning off $150m in bribes during a "World Cup of fraud" dating back decades.
