BERLIN (AFP) - German industrial group Siemens is being investigated on suspicion of corruption in the oil-for-food programme in Iraq, a report claimed.
The Financial Times Deutschland paper, which released an advance extract of its Wednesday edition, quoted a spokesman for the state prosecutor in Nuremberg as saying: "The prosecutor is investigating whether Siemens contravened the law on foreign trade."
The spokesman said the allegations against Siemens concerned mainly its energy and medical equipment operations and involved a six-figure sum, meaning at least 100,000 euros (133,000 dollars).
The money was allegedly paid as a bribe to Saddam Hussein's regime to secure contracts as part of the UN-supervised food-for-oil programme which ran from late-1996 to 2003.
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