Charges Against Foreign Subsidiaries

Some multinational corporations that appear to have clean records may in fact have kept their own reputations intact by arranging for a subsidiary to take the fall for a corporate scandal.

We investigated one international construction company that looked solid, except for a subsidiary's central role in a bribe-paying scandal.

In another case, a parent company ended a criminal investigation of its corporate practices by arranging for its offshore subsidiary to enter a guilty plea. Searches of news articles about the parent company turned up nothing negative, but our investigation led us to a source who tipped us to look at the subsidiary. Only then did the true story unfold.