Alstom Wins Swiss Court Order on Documents in Corruption Probe
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Alstom SA, the world's third-largest power plant maker, won a court order forcing Swiss prosecutors to give it access to documents seized in a probe into as much as 500 million Swiss francs ($435 million) in suspicious payments.
The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, said prosecutors lacked evidence to prove that all of the payments were linked to bribes and ordered prosecutors to share the documents, tied to an Alstom unit in Baden, Switzerland, Stephane Farhi, a company spokesman, said in a telephone interview.