Siemens set to leave Sudan

GERMAN engineering giant Siemens is pulling out of Sudan on moral and political grounds, its chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld has said in a magazine interview.

Siemens set to leave Sudan

Siemens’ reputation has been hit by a €200 million bribery and embezzlement scandal as well as by its involvement in Sudan, where 200,000 people have been killed in the four-year-old conflict in Darfur.

Mr Kleinfeld told Der Spiegel that Siemens’s policy was never to pay bribes to secure contracts, and was asked if the company would ever cease operating in a country for political or moral reasons.

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