- Bribes can be linked to the bus and truck manufacturer Scania’s stores in India, SVT reports tonight.
- According to Scania’s CEO Henrik Henriksson, the company’s own investigations have shown that there were bribes in the sale of Scania’s products in India, but no police report has been made by Scania.
- โWe found a number of incidents where there are suspicions of bribery, but also a few where there is evidence that our private dealers have used bribes. It is completely unacceptable “, says Henriksson in the program Assignment Review.
It is about Scania’s business in India between 2013 and 2016. Together with German and Indian journalists have SVT’s Assignment Review received emails, text messages and other documents and testimonies that dealers representing Scania gave gifts and cash to decision makers to win bus contracts in India.
In one case, a minister received the equivalent of SEK 130,000 in a plastic bag, and later the same minister is said to have received just over SEK 200,000. In addition to bribes, Scania is also revealed to have forged a hundred trucks to get them sold to a state-owned Indian mining company.
Scania has investigated the suspicions and concluded that they paid for bus contracts in seven different states, according to SVT. Scania’s press department informs Ekot that the company has completed about twenty investigations into the existence of errors. The company does not want to say how much money it is about. CEO Henrik Henriksson is interviewed in the program.
– We have enough evidence to say that someone who is employed at Scania has made a mistake. But it is not the same as that we have had enough evidence to go to court or to go to the police and report it to the police, says Henrik Henriksson in the program.
Scania still sells trucks in India, but corruption has contributed to the company leaving the bus business.
– We have stopped selling buses at all after we found this. And as a consequence, we have had to close the entire bus factory in India, says Scania’s CEO Henrik Henriksson to Uppdrag Granskning.
Tomorrow, the company will present its financial statements for 2020.