ABB Ltd

El caso Kusile de ABB no es solo un caso de soborno o un titular de reincidente. Es una prueba de si un proveedor multinacional puede hacer que cada subcontratista de alto riesgo y pago en un proyecto de infraestructura pública sea justificable de forma independiente antes de que los fondos se muevan.

ABB’s Kusile record is not only a bribery case or a repeat-offender headline. It is a test of whether a multinational supplier can make every high-risk subcontractor and payment on a public infrastructure project independently explainable before funds move. The record describes confidential tender information, politically connected influence, subcontractors with qualification or service concerns, an advance payment, variation orders, false accounting and control failures across local and group boundaries. It also contains several legally different outcomes: a US guilty plea by ABB South Africa, a US deferred prosecution agreement with ABB Ltd, a separate SEC order, a South African punitive-r