Samsung Heavy Industries to pay $75M in foreign bribery case
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-11-25T20:21:00
Samsung Heavy Industries will pay total criminal penalties of $75.5 million to enforcement authorities in the United States and Brazil to resolve violations arising out of a bribery scheme in Brazil.
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