Jury convicts Hoskins of multiple FCPA and money laundering offenses
A former Alstom SA executive who carried a UK passport,
worked in France, and said he never set foot in the United States, was convicted Friday by a federal jury on 11 of 12 counts for his part in a scheme to bribe government officials in Indonesia.
Lawrence Hoskins, 69, a former senior vice president at Paris-based Alstom,
was found guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and of money laundering and related conspiracy charges.
The jury in Connecticut deliberated one day.
They acquitted Hoskins on one money laundering count.
They convicted him on six counts of violating the FCPA, three counts of money laundering, and two counts of conspiracy.
Alstom SA pleaded guilty in December 2014 to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing officials in
Indonesia,
Saudi Arabia,
Egypt,
and the Bahamas.
Three other Alstom executives pleaded guilty in the United States to bribing officials in Indonesia.
The DOJ put Hoskins on trial in Connecticut, where the Alstom subsidiary implicated in the Indonesia bribery was based.
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