Friday, October 2, 2009

BAE Serious Fraud Office

This topic is back on the agenda. From what I have read it is about some shady deals in the companies past. Back in 2006 it was agreed not to pursue the inquiry because of national interests.

The company probably has done a lot of clean up their act - and also the practices of years ago simply do not work now. Of course I can never forgive them for Windows on warships - but that is more a technical gripe.

They do keep engineering jobs going in this country and we do pay a lot of our taxes through defence spending to this company. The biggest scandal in recent years has to be the cost overruns on some projects (submarines, Type 45, aircraft carriers) and not so much corrupt business deals.

It will interesting to see how this progresses.

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