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...In 2019, a former defence contractor turned whistleblower alleged that Mapisa-Nqakula had solicited R2.3mn in bribes....
...General Motors’ Cruise faces probes by numerous federal and state authorities, including the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission, after an accident that led to the shutdown of driverless...
...So that’s what they tried to carve out — this kind of different, independent maverick foreign policy....
...He was also general counsel at Revolution LLC, the venture capital firm founded by Steve Case, former CEO of AOL. Over the years, he has gained a reputation for his approachability....
...MNG Group, a Turkish conglomerate that says its private jet operator inadvertently leased two aircraft used in the getaway, claims that Al Nitaq Al Akhdhar for General Trade Limited, a company linked to...
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...What about the other side of the scheme, the Russian “king contractor” Alexander Karmanov?...
...AGP, the existence of “schemes and arrangements” between Mr Kulibayev and ETK, the receipt by Mr Kulibayev of money from contracts related to the pipeline, nor any benefit having been gained by Petroleum LLC...
...Downing Street said Mr Sabisky had been employed as a “contractor” but would not specify for what work or what his role was. It also would not comment on his specific remarks....
...(FT) Chapter eleventh hour Intense, around-the-clock negotiations in the General Motors building saved Eddie Lampert’s plan to buy Sears out of bankruptcy....
...“There’s a bunch of financial regulation that was drafted for banking a very long time ago,” says Sarah Turner, REA’s general counsel....
...The frontrunner in that race, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a maverick leftist has made fighting corruption the leitmotif of his campaign, but some officials in his Morena party have also been tarnished by...
...In general, mavericks are not appreciated in rule-bound Japan. Nomura is no exception. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...He has also said he will provide documents rebutting the “imprecise and baseless assertions” linking the contractors to his wife’s home, but so far the government’s rebuttal has been weak....
...Information technology is a truly general-purpose technology, and its impact will occur across the board....
...The announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney-general, marks a substantial escalation in US efforts to curb what it claims has been widespread theft of information and technology by Chinese military and...
...Entities affiliated with General Atlantic own 8.4 per cent with Scale Venture Partners owning 7.4 per cent....
...In August Pavel Durov, Vkontakte’s maverick founder, publicly invited Mr Snowden to join Vkontakte’s team....
...Shares in the company fell 3.3 per cent on Monday, and the stock of its rivals General Dynamics and SAIC declined as much as 3 per cent (Reuters)....
...The battle for Hess, which will come to a head at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, reflects rising shareholder activism among US investors in general and particularly in the energy industry....
...Making financial contracts in general more equity- like means better risk sharing for the entire economy. When house prices rise, both the lender and borrower would benefit....
...Chris Shumway gave $750,000 to Restore our Future, while John Griffin of Blue Ridge Partners donated $125,000 to the same super-Pac, and Lee Ainslie, of Maverick Capital sent $100,000 to the group....
...Mr Johnston had been very successful within General Electric, rising through its competitive managerial ranks. He was also good looking and 6ft 7, a CEO from central casting....
...Guy Hands, the maverick founder of buy-out house Terra Firma, last week described the current era as “wilderness years” for private equity as opposed to the “Woodstock years” that preceded the financial...
...Insiders say that General Atlantic Partners, the US buy-out firm, has backed out of a consortium formed by Virgin Money to bid for Northern Rock....
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