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Canada: Firm Paid Bribes to Win Lesotho Dam Job

Credit Pacific Service Union MASERU, Lesotho -- Advocates of corporate accountability are pointing to the sweeping implications of a landmark verdict delivered Tuesday by the High Court in the tiny kingdom of Lesotho that a Canadian multinational company was guilty of paying bribes to win contracts on a dam project.

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Credit First Service Union Probe International said that Tuesday's conviction on corruption charges of engineering firm Acres International, based in Ontario, Canada, could change the way in which multinational companies undertake projects, such as building dams, in developing countries.

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Card Credit Discover Service Following a seven month trial and a judgment that took three days to read out, Acres was convicted by Lesotho's Chief Justice Lehohla on two counts of bribing an official to secure contracts on a multibillion dollar dam scheme in the impoverished Southern African country.

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Credit Public Service Union Acres was found guilty of paying over US$260,000, through an agent, to Masupha Sole, the former chief executive of Lesotho's Highland Water Project. Acres will be sentenced on October 7.

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Card Credit Processing Service Sole was convicted earlier this year of receiving the bribes during his tenure at the World Bank funded $8 billion project, one of Africa's biggest engineering works involving dams and tunnels to divert water to neighboring South Africa and generate electricity.

Center Credit Service Union In a press statement issued Tuesday Acres said it was "shocked" by the decision and continues to "strongly declare its innocence of the charges." The company said it will take "vigorous action to protect its good name" and would immediately begin an appeal.

Card Credit Service Wireless Acres's defense is that it had no knowledge that its agent was passing on money to Sole, a claim rejected by Judge Lehohla as a strategy to cover up bribery.

Credit Security Service Union The firm's lawyer Milos Barutciski criticized the verdict for running counter to a two and a half year World Bank investigation which concluded in February by dismissing corruption claims due to lack of evidence.

Credit Report Service "The Lesotho court went to extraordinary lengths to act in complete disregard of a massive volume of evidence collected during the World Bank's extensive and thorough investigation that found that Acres was not guilty of corruption," said Barutciski.

Blogspot Com Christian Campaigners are now demanding that the World Bank, which funded the Lesotho water project, follow through on its own promises to get tough on companies found guilty of corruption by striking Acres off its list of approved contractors. Bank policy prevents it from doing business with any firm found guilty of corruption on one of its contracts.

Christian Counseling Credit "We expect the Bank to disbar Acres now that they have been found guilty of corruption on a World Bank contract," said Ryan Hoover of the Berkeley based International Rivers Network. "Anything less than disbarment would undermine not only the World Bank's own corruption policy, but also its poverty alleviation objectives."

Credit Federal Service Union Acres was the first of several Western contractors to enter the dock in the high profile corruption trial first brought by Lesotho authorities in 1999. Two other firms, Germany's Lahmeyer International GmbH and French firm Spie Batignolles, have been charged with bribery and are awaiting trial.

Credit Monitoring Service The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, one of the world's largest infrastructure projects, is a multi-purpose undertaking between the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho and South Africa which completely surrounds the smaller country.

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Card Credit Online Service The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is reversing the flow of the Sengu/Orange river in the rainy highlands of Lesotho directing the water into the Vaal River. This is being accomplished by means of five dams, 200 kilometers (124 miles) of tunnels blasted through the Maluti Mountains, and a 72 megawatt hydropower plant.

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Card Consolidation Credit The Lesotho verdict comes in a week when the newly formed African Union is meeting in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to draw up a pan-African blueprint to fight corruption, which it says costs the continent an estimated $150 billion each year.

Credit Free Online Report Original story written by Penny Dale. Published in cooperation with the OneWorld Network.

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