{"id":611,"date":"2008-10-07T19:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-10-07T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:33:23","slug":"balfour-beatty-bribery-deal-is-this-the-start-of-plea-bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Beatty: bribery deal, is this the start of plea bargains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-612\" style=\"width:107px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/balfourbeatty.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/balfourbeatty.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>balfourbeatty<\/div>\r\n<\/div> A deal that could lead to similar settlements follows Balfour Beatty&#8217;s agrement to admit &#8220;payment irregularities&#8221; and pay a \u00a32.25m penalty in exchange for no criminal charges being brought against them.<br \/>\nThe deal follows a Serious Fraud Squad investigation. The deal is &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221;, the suggestion is that it could open the way for other settlements by companies facing foreign corruption charges.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2008\/oct\/07\/balfourbeatty.egypt\">News report here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>balfourbeatty A deal that could lead to similar settlements follows Balfour Beatty&#8217;s agrement to admit &#8220;payment irregularities&#8221; and pay a \u00a32.25m penalty in exchange for no criminal charges being brought against them. The deal follows a Serious Fraud Squad investigation. The deal is &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221;, the suggestion is that it could open the way for other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}