Airbus fined €3.6bn in bribery deferred prosecution agreement

Airbus has been fined €3.6bn as it reached final deferred prosecution agreements (DPA) with French, US and UK authorities over bribery activity in a number of countries including Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. The agreement with the French Parquet National Financier (PNF), the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) ends authorities’ investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption over the sale of airplanes to those countries and also ends US Department of State (DoS) and the DoJ investigations into inaccurate and misleading filings made with the DoS in relation to the US