The Australian Federal Police arrested two Australians on charges of bribing government officials in Sydney last September.
The two of them are scheduled to appear before the Sydney Regional Court today (11).
S.M.E.C. was a subsidiary company in Australia. It is reported that the international company has tried to bribe the government officials in Sri Lanka to get the contract for two projects in Sri Lanka.
Also, it has been revealed that these two people conspired to give more than three hundred and four thousand Australian dollars as bribes between 2009 and 2016.
As reported by the Australian media, the suspects were arrested after a long investigation together with many international organizations including the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, the Sri Lanka Police, the Bangladesh Police, and the Central Bureau of Investigation of India. have.
The arrested men are a 67-year-old and a 71-year-old from Sydney. They are scheduled to appear in court today and face 10 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy to bribe a foreign government official.
