General News of Monday, 10 February 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comFlashback: Daimler admits bribing Ghana MilitarySome military trucks manufactured by Daimler AGIt appears the incidence of a manufacturing firm bribing Ghanaian officials to expedite the procuring of contracts in the country is not as new as the nation has been made to believe. In a report published on June 17, 2010, in the Public Agenda Newspaper and subsequently aggregated by www.ghanaweb.com, German luxury carmaker Daimler AG, noted for the production of Benz were implicated in a bribery scandal involving many countries, Ghana included. The report further cited that “…in the specific case of Ghana, Daimler, and Silver Star Auto are said to have entered into a contract to sell eight trucks to the Ghana Armed Forces in September 1997. The deal was negotiated through an agent, Global Strategic Ventures Ltd. Silver Star Auto paid Global Strategic Ventures a commission of $170,000, which was wired from a Daimler account in Germany to Global Strategic Ventures' account in London and debited to Silver Star Auto's TPA account.

Source: GhanaWeb February 10, 2020 13:10 UTC