Bribing Officials
HOW ORDERS ARE SECURED. A TOKIO CASE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 22, 1 a.m. Tokio, January 21. Carl Richter, an employee of the Tokio office of Siemens and Schukcrt, electrical engineers, lias been sentenced I to two years' imprisonment for stealing conliiU'iitial documents relating to the Japanese navy orders. Ilichter offered to sell the documents (o Siemens' for £2oi». Counsel stated thit in a letter Richter had offered a high Admiralty ollicial three and a half per cent, commission on all orders. Another showed that fifteen per cent had always been allowed for. confidential payments to Japanese officials. The Court held that the illegitimate manipulations of the (inn constituted an expansion of tlic eireuustances of the case.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 174, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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119Bribing Officials Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 174, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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