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Read something other than marketing materials for PR purposes. The CEO of Siemens at the time was Klaus Kleinfeld. The bribery scandals were so bad in 2007 tha
by internet_user 7y ago
Read something other than marketing materials for PR purposes.
The CEO of Siemens at the time was Klaus Kleinfeld. The bribery scandals were so bad in 2007 that he was forced out, and forced to settle with Siemens, 2 millions euros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Bribery_investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Bribery_invest...
Now, ostensibly, these were scandals about Siemens bribing other countries. Do you think people at Siemens, with such high moral integrity, managed to pocket some bribes themselves?
Perhaps in exchange for handing over valuable IP? What's a signature or two between friends.
- yorwba 7y agoI don't see a reason for discounting Siemens' own PR department as a source for what the decision-makers at Siemens think of deals they make. Whether they were bribed to agree is a different matter. In any case, it was public knowledge that technology would be transferred, so still not something I'd call "theft".