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Apple Halts Indian Antitrust Probe With Confidentiality Complaint
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I knew many crooked American executives from Accenture. I worked for consulting firms over 15 years before I had enough and went independent. The show House of Lies is lot closer to reality than fiction.
I don't doubt that for a second but years ago I was a manager of a division of a US company based in the UK. I had a group of engineers to look after, the majortity of them would try iut on. Some ridiculously so.
It happens everywhere from the ground level right up to board level.
Everywhere.
Look at how many police, judges and politicians are charged for breaking the law but get away with it. At least with TATA I can choose not to use their products and services, not so with taxation, (unless of course you are any of those aforementioned groups in which case you can skirt the law nad get your buddies to help you).
Let’s have an antitrust probe into India’s monopoly of scam market
I know some U.S. citizens who worked with the U.S. Congress for years and the stories they told me.
My grandfather worked as a USDA ambassador to South Korea back in 60s. He stated (if I can repeat correctly from what my aunts have told me), the corruption there was a way of life. It is the culture in many places to have some sort of corruption. Western countries tend to be behind closed doors while Eastern countries are more open (but are leaning more toward the behind closed doors as it means they can get away with it longer).
He said the worse place he had ever been to for corruption, was Ethiopia. He would be on a food relief mission to a tribe not in power and the tribe in power would attack the convoy (generally the tribe in power were also the guards for the convoy).
He said the worse place he had ever been to for corruption, was Ethiopia. He would be on a food relief mission to a tribe not in power and the tribe in power would attack the convoy (generally the tribe in power were also the guards for the convoy).
People can downvote you all they want, you’re not wrong. Every country has corruption, some just more than others, sadly.
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I didn't up or down vote but curiously can you substantiate that claim aside from what you think is the case?
If you're grandfather had ever been to Congo or Nigeria in the last 15 years I can bet he'd switch to those over Ethopia on the same topics Food/Medical relief and on-going local wars therein, along with mining companies therein - Gasoline trucks being hijacked and fuel resold at incredible mark-ups. Let's not mention protections (and corruption within) affecting gold market pricing.
Late 2011 the 2nd largest Gold mining company in the world had a chartered plane take off from the Kupol mine - a very rural and difficult accessible mine due to the amount of snow and extremely cold temperatures, crashed into a mountain while carrying "9.3 tons of gold and other precious metals, said to be worth $368 million, But police reported recovering only 172 gold bars weighing 3.4 tons, That has left local residents in Yakutia — the coldest region in Russia — wondering what happened to the rest?"
Gold rush in -24 C as $368 million in gold bars falls off plane in Siberia
Canadian miner Kinross say all the precious metal was recovered, but that hasn’t stopped treasure hunters from pouring into Russia’s coldest region
I know as I worked at HQ and saw the internal news report. Under the founder and former CEO. What's frustrating as I'm not able to find the official press on their site (may be archived). Not to say anything bad about the company, its employees nor the leadership - they are ALL top notch and good people that walk the narrow path of right against wrong both professionally and personally: and I can attest personally to this.
But the chartered plane ... whomever piloted and the hired security makes you wonder what plans THEY had. Some 7yrs later only under half of gold, smelted bars, was ever recovered?
Kinross presents Prime Minister Putin with strategy to increase mining investments
Russia could become a global leader in mineral investments with modest changes in regulatory and investment policies Moscow , October 18, 2011 - A new study prepared by Kinross Gold Corporation suggests that a series of relatively modest regulatory reforms could help the Russian Federation...
^ I wonder if this was part of the plan of said chartered team.