Wal-Mart paid bribes worth millions of dollars in India but unlikely to face penalty
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America's multinational retail corporation In a major report, the
"The vast majority of the suspicious payments were less than USD 200, and some were as low as USD 5, the people said, but when added together they totalled millions of dollars," the daily said.
According to the report, Wal-Mart is unlikely to face any penalty for it.
"Because penalties under the FCPA are often connected to the amount of profit the alleged misconduct generated, the payments in India wouldn't be likely to result in any sizable penalty, since Wal-Mart's operations there haven't been particularly profitable, said people familiar with the matter," the daily reported.
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There was no immediate response from Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters here on the Wall Street Journal's report on its bribery in India.
According to The Wall Street Journal, federal investigators "found evidence of bribery in India, centering on widespread but relatively small payments made to local officials there," during the course of its "high-profile federal probe" into allegations of widespread corruption at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's operations in Mexico.
In 2013, Wal-Mart shelved plans to open retail stores in India by severing a joint venture with
Walmart, who was pushing the previous UPA regime for opening of the multi-brand retail sector was also involved in lobbying before the US Congress in this regard, Congressional disclosure reports have said in the past few years.
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