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インドネシアで自社のGM綿が環境にどのような影響を与えるかについての調査を避けようとして従業員がインドネシア環境省の役人に賄賂5万ドルを渡したことで、モンサントに罰金と3年間の営業監視が科された。役人は賄賂を貰っていたのに調査をやめなかった。モンサントは従業員の行動に責任を負いこの件についての調査に協力すると表明している。（でも調査を避けたがるんじゃヤバイ物という雰囲気プンプンですよ）
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4153635.stm
Last Updated: Friday, 7 January, 2005, 05:29 GMT
Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery
*The US agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay a $1.5m (£799,000) fine for bribing an Indonesian official.
Monsanto admitted one of its employees paid the senior official two years ago in a bid to avoid environmental impact studies being conducted on its cotton.
In addition to the penalty, Monsanto also agreed to three years' close monitoring of its business practices by the American authorities.
It said it accepted full responsibility for what it called improper activities.
A former senior manager at Monsanto directed an Indonesian consulting firm to give a $50,000 bribe to a high-level official in Indonesia's environment ministry in 2002.
The manager told the company to disguise an invoice for the bribe as "consulting fees".
Despite the bribe, the official did not authorise the waiving of the environmental study requirement.
*'Fully co-operative'
Monsanto faced both criminal and civil charges from the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
It agreed to pay $1m to the Department of Justice, adopt internal compliance measures, and co-operate with continuing civil and criminal investigations.
It is also paying $500,000 to the SEC to settle the bribe charge and other related violations.
Monsanto said it accepted full responsibility for its employees' actions, adding that it had taken "remedial actions to address the activities in Indonesia" and had been "fully co-operative" throughout the investigative process.
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