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Where?
by authority- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA) €4.07m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €4.07m 100 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | €4.07m |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
2 Dec 2022 a Swiss services company of an electrical engineering groupSwiss Attorney General fines group company over bribery in South Africa €4.07m
From 2013 employees of an electrical engineering group set up a bribery scheme in which inflated payments to subcontractors were used to channel benefits to public officials in South Africa and win contracts for the construction of a coal-fired power station (bribes of at least CHF 1.3 million, contracts worth at least USD 200 million). By summary penalty order, the Bundesanwaltschaft (BA, Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland) convicted a Swiss services company of the group for failing to take all reasonable organisational measures to prevent this, fined it CHF 4,000,000 (statutory maximum CHF 5 million) and ordered it to pay procedural costs of CHF 50,000. The BA waived a compensatory claim because the group had already paid USD 104 million to South Africa in 2020.
Payments to subcontractors in high-risk countries must be checked for genuine consideration and reasonableness, or the company is liable for missing safeguards.
Bribery through subcontractors and third parties in foreign business
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i.V.m. Art. 322septies StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation taken into account as mitigating; no compensatory claim because of a USD 104 million settlement payment already made to South Africa in 2020.
- Published
- 2 Dec 2022
Original amount 4,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 2 Dec 2022.
- Bundesanwaltschaft, Medienmitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2022) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 2 Dec 2024 · Direct link