> $COMPANYNAME is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa /thread

> $COMPANYNAME is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa /thread. > A former colleague based in Saudi Arabia who had become upset by what he saw taking place at Microsoft began forwarding me emails and documentation—and I learned that the corruption went much deeper than I had suspected. Great, the guy just confessed receiving the internal documents from a company sent by an accomplice. > This decision maker on the customer side would send an email to Microsoft requesting a discount, which would be granted, but the end customer would pay the full fee anyway. The amount of the discount would then be distributed among the parties in cahoots: the Microsoft employee(s) involved in the scheme, the partner, and the decision maker at the purchasing entity—often a government official. Yep, the most straightforward and easy way to get some additional money. > In a 2015 meeting with members of the Nigerian Parliament, the president of the Senate complained to me that the government had paid $5.5 million for Microsoft licenses for hardware they did not possess. …