Payments in high-value deals not a bribe, Mahathir says about AirAsia probe
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office said last week that the European aircraft manufacturer paid a bribe of $50 million to executives of AirAsia and its long-haul arm AirAsia X to win plane orders.
AirAsia co-founders Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranun have both denied wrongdoing and relinquished their executive roles for at least two months while the SFO’s allegations are probed. “Often when governments buy equipment, we always ask for an offset...If we can get something because we buy something at a high price, why can’t we accept it?” he told reporters.
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