Hewlett-Packard Hit With 58.7 million Dollar Fine

A subsidiary of U.S. technology giant Hewlett-Packard has been hit
with a multi-million-dollar fine for bribing Russian government
officials. 

The company's Russian division will have to pay 58.7 million dollars after pleading guilty in a California court to violating U.S. anti-bribery and accounting laws. 

HP Russia admitted paying off government officials to secure a 45 million dollar contract with the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Marshall Miller of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division called the illicit deal in Russia troubling. 

Other HP subsidiaries in Poland and Mexico were convicted under the same law earlier this year, bringing total fines to the company and its affiliates to 108 million dollars.

VOA