FRANKFURT – German engineering giant Siemens is pulling out of Sudan on moral and political grounds, its chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld said in a magazine interview released on Saturday.
Despite strong financial results, Siemens’ reputation has been hit by a 200-million-euro bribery and embezzlement scandal as well as by its involvement in Sudan, where 200 000 people are estimated to have been killed in the four-year-old conflict in Darfur. Kleinfeld insisted to German magazine Der Spiegel that Siemens’ 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.Nampa-ReutersKleinfeld insisted to German magazine Der Spiegel that Siemens’ 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.Nampa-Reuters
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