Koch Industries made “improper payments” to win contracts in other countries, and circumvented a U.S. trade ban in selling petrochemicals to Iran, according to an investigation by Bloomberg Markets magazine.Asjylyn Loder and David Evans of Bloomberg Markets report that in 2008, an internal investigative team was sent to the company’s Koch-Glitsch affiliate in southern France to probe the company’s management, and discovered that since 2002, the company had paid out bribes to win contracts in six countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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