Former Rolls-Royce Managers Plead Guilty to U.S. Bribery Charges
- Case concerns contract award for gas pipeline in Central Asia
- U.K. group earlier paid $800 million to settle foreign probes
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Two former Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc executives pleaded guilty to U.S. charges that they orchestrated international bribes at the engine maker for more than a decade.
The cases, also involving three other individuals, focus on efforts to secure a $145 million contract to power a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to China. The action comes about 10 months after Rolls agreed to pay $800 million to resolve probes in the U.S., U.K. and Brazil. The bribes occurred from 1999 to 2013 in Africa, the Mideast and South America, prosecutors said.