Good evening Everyone!!
For all the hue and cry, my point has been simple in the matter of the Approved Judgement by the UK Crown Court in the case of the SFO versus Airbus: no bribes or kickbacks were paid to any Ghanaian officials. The Approved judgement simply mentions that COMMISSIONS paid to Agents of Airbus were in excess of what is approved by the European Commission’s OECD Rules. Simplicita!
But let’s note, also, that the settlement is neither an admission that Airbus is guilty, or that Airbus actually paid what some have classified as bribes to whoever, and definitely not any past Ghanaian Government Official. The fact, as has been established, that the hands of no official of Ghana was soiled is truly pleasing.
The United Kingdom is conscious of corruption – acts of corruption and conflict of interest issues –involving UK registered international organizations, individuals and companies and therefore passed the Bribery Act, and an even more elaborate legislation – the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Both legislations, more or less, lead to the same conclusions: allow companies caught on the wrong side of the law to pay hefty fines as restitution to ensure, after the fact, that there is no recidivism.
The perpetrators when caught are fined heavily and in this particular case, Airbus has paid a very hefty fine to the tune of €3 billion, the highest so far in recent times and same paid into the UK’s Consolidation Fund to be shared with the other receiving countries, US and France.
Airbus has in the aftermath of the judgement signed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).
As earlier mentioned, you will realize that signing a DPA does not infer guilt. It is a quick fix and certainly a cheaper option to a significant conglomerate like Airbus with huge international presence and influential international competitors. A DPA is always preferred. It makes economic sense to the UK and to Airbus to get a slap on the hand by way of a hefty fine and agree to go and sin no more, rather than go through a long, protracted and an even more expensive prosecution spanning 3 different countries.
Many multinationals continue to do business here and in many other countries. What are the practices they employ? Who receives all the slush funds/ money they bring into the countries in which they operate?
Surely, as a country, we would be better served by learning some of the best international practices centred on building rather than destroying. Or have we been blindsided by our own damaging politics and extreme partisanship!
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Get away with your pimpul ridden face and incurable lies that hv become a hallmark of yr ***barred word*** Ndc politics. Am surprised about yr deafening silence since the can of worms was opened. Probably you were as usual of you and boss, finding an incomprehensible Alain as you hv perfectly done in a face saving attempt. Let me assure you that you hv woefully failed. Very soon and infact fact very soon, the chickens will come home to roost. In any serious jurisdiction, the salary, benefits, courtesies, allowances etc. due that suspected or alleged bribe asking and accepting GO1 and his entire staff drawn on the tax payer would by now be suspended until otherwise determined. Let your boss, the facebook addict come in his normal self to throw his effusion.
JUST LIKE PREGNANCY, ONLY TIME WILL TELL. THE TRUTH WILL BY ALL MEANS COME OUT. 2020 AY3 D3D33D3. LONG LIVE GHANA.
Right after assumption of office, GO1 approaches Airbus and expresses interest in purchasing aircrafts for Ghana. GO1 later introduces Intermediary 5 to Airbus as agent who will fascilitate the transaction. Airbus’s own internal due diligence checks reveals that Intermediary 5 is related to GO1 ( the US investigation says they are actually brothers). Now Airbus tells GO1 that due to this situation, they cannot directly deal with intermediary 5, so they introduce Intermediary 6 to the transaction who is affiliated to Airbus. So Airbus will pay Intermediary 6, them intermediary 6 will pay intermediary 5 and then intermediary 5 pays GO1 the agreed $5m bribe....... Tell Juyce Bawa Mugtari that we understand this judgement Paa!
APASCA. THIS IS PURE DAMAGED CONTROL NSO APASKA. NDC IS DOING ALL THEY CAN TO DIVERT THE AIRBUS SCANDALLL NARRATIVES AWAY FROM MAHAMA, CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY. UNFORTUNATELY THE MORE THEY TRY THE MORE THEY MUDDY THE WATERS. SOME CONSIDER THE CASE TRIVIAL AND WONDER WHY SHOULD MUCH ATTENTION BE GIVEN TO IT. CONTRARY, OTHERS IN THE SAME PARTY CLAIM THAT THE WORK IS TOO BIG FOR MARTIN AMIDU TO HANDLE. THEY HAVE SOON FORGOTTEN THAT MARTIN AMIDU IS INTERESTED IN GARGANTUAN CASES. MARTIN AMIDU WANTS TO DO THINGS WHICH HAS NO PRECEDENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATION. THIS IS FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM. HE MAY NEVER BECOME PRESIDENT BUT MAY GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS CAPABLE TO INCRIMINATE PRESIDENT. NOW HE HAS THE ALL THE TOOLS, AND THE SUPPORT. ALL EYES ARE ON HIM. IT IS BREAK AND DO FOR MARTIN.
Why are these NDC people defending Mahama? They all benefited from the bribe....... but they are refusing to accept that the GO1 is John Ford Mahama. You guys must first agree that the Government Official 1 in the Airbus judgement is John Corrupt Ford Mahama......
story....give us a break. everybody in Ghana knows that John Mahama is soo corrupt and any contract he handle is always rounded with corruption.
if all you want to do with your life is to defend tiieeefs that is your own ball of kenkey. this woman is wild and aggressive and the sudden change of tone in this write up is an admission of guilt. Mahama is still wondering how to respond to this one. it is too much . the guy has been caught red handed. the trick is that. the US officials can de classify and release all original documentation with names. so if you respond today with more lies and the truth comes later what do you do. NDc must change candidate if they want 20% in 2020
Madam, stop that and let's have our peace of mind. That's how you understand the ruling from the UK crown court. We too have our understanding of it. Anyway the ruling was clear and doesn't need you to explain it to us. Those who will pretend as if they don't understand it will do but will go with your explanation and that's their cup of tea but Ghanaians are not S T U P 1 D, madam
This woman and her bunch of corrupt party members think we are 1diots like themselves. The most nauseating bit is for this Gonja-speaking woman to pretend to understand English better than the British and Americans. If no government official was bribed, we live to see. If he can collect a Ford Expedition as a bribe, what else won't he collect? Once a thi*e*f, always a thi*i*e*f. The NDC can explain all they want, but the fact remains that GO1 is who he is.......... The Incompetent Corrupt One (ICO)
So far, those who have responded to Joyce's submission pretend they understood the piece.I could tell they didn't understand because they failed to respond with issues relevant to Joyce's submission. Joyce's piece tried and successfully established that the Crown Court nor any other had stated that a Ghanaian official was bribed. So any response not directed at a case of bribery is irrelevant. Some think proving that John Mahama is GO1 is what we should look for but that is not the issue in question at all, at all, at all at all in this matter.