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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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| Q4 2024 | 1 | €53.5m |
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1 case
19 Dec 2024 AAR Corp.Aviation services provider AAR pays 55.6 million USD for bribery in Nepal and South Africa €53.5m
Through an agent and a joint venture partner, AAR paid sham commissions to public officials in order to secure the sale of two Airbus A330s to Nepal Airlines and maintenance services for South African Airways Technical. SEC: 23,451,100 USD in disgorgement and 5,785,524 USD in interest; DOJ criminal penalty of 26,363,029 USD under a Non-Prosecution Agreement.
State-owned airlines are public contracting entities – scrutinise commissions to intermediaries in aircraft transactions rigorously.
Agents and joint venture partners in transactions with state-owned airlines
- Authority / court
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); U.S. Department of Justice
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- FCPA (Anti-Bestechung, Buchführung, interne Kontrollen); Non-Prosecution Agreement
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Disclosure following press reports, cooperation (forensics, translations, witnesses) and remedial measures.
- Liability of senior managers
- A former senior employee of an AAR subsidiary, Deepak Sharma (named in the SEC order), was involved.
- Published
- 19 Dec 2024
Original amount 55,599,653 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Dec 2024.
- SEC Order In the Matter of AAR Corp., Release No. 101987 (19.12.2024) Decision of an authority
- DOJ Criminal Division: Non-Prosecution Agreement Re: AAR Corp. (19.12.2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link