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Bofors

['bәufɔ:z]
n.
博福斯式高射炮

Bofors is accused of paying $50 million in kickbacks to win the contract.
Mr. Ringberg indicated that he would examine Bofors's relationship with Tan Kok Cheng, the former general manager of Allied Ordinance of Singapore Pte.
"The funds will be restored to the nation and the guilty punished," he declared at the news conference, and pledged to restore India's "national dignity." When the Bofors contract was signed in 1986, Singh was Gandhi's defense minister.
A prosecutor in Sweden said he would seek access to Swiss bank records as part of Stockholm's inquiry into allegations that arms maker AB Bofors paid bribes to win a $1.3 billion artillery order from India.
Indian newspapers have alleged that Bofors paid middlemen up to $50 million in kickbacks to secure the 1986 contract.
But with parliamentary elections due no later than January and speculation heightening that the date will be set any day now, the opposition has seized upon Bofors with renewed intensity.
Bofors owned Nobel Kemi during the 1981 to 1985 period Lundberg had been accused of making the illegal sales.
The program quoted John Edwards, whom the program identified as an adviser for Palme on disarmament, as saying Palme asked Gandhi to buy 400 long-range howitzers from Bofors AB, Sweden's largest arms maker.
Gandhi has been dogged since April 1987 by allegations that members of his party and senior government officials received as much as $50 million in kickbacks in a $1.4 billion gun contract with a Swedish company, AB Bofors.
Bofors denied the allegations but rejected demands from Indian opposition leaders to open its books.
Hours after Singh's truncated statement, the Defense Ministry said it had been directed by the prime minister to stop all future contracts with Bofors.
A Swedish investigation last June found that Bofors paid up to $40 million to individuals, but the company legally blocked access to further information.
The issues sharpened in recent days with new accusations of high-level deceit and ineptitude involving the Gandhi government's $1.4 billion purchase of artillery guns from the Swedish company AB Bofors.
The Janata Dal's top national leader, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, and leading Indian newspapers have challenged the prime minister's assertions that no Indians received kickbacks in the 1986 contract to buy artillery guns from Bofors.
It said the documents included telex messages between the Swedish firm AB Bofors and two Swiss banks in Geneva in 1986 dealing with accounts under the control of London-based members of the Hinduja family.
The alleged impropriety in AB Bofors' $1.4 billion Howitzer gun deal was a key campaign issue for Singh, whose centrist coalition ousted Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress Party from power in last month's elections.
After Singh's resignation, Swedish and Indian news reports disclosed the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors paid as much as $50 million in commissions and kickbacks to get a $1.4 billion weapons contract.
The Swedish company A.B. Bofors and unidentified officials in the government of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were charged with bribery Monday in connection with a $1.4 million arms deal.
Early last year, Nobel Industrier said that Bofors's Singapore operations "may have been systematically used for unauthorized re-exports" of arms and munitions by company officials to Dubai, Bahrain, Oman and possibly Thailand.
It is the resurrection of the Bofors affair that makes the government even more on the defensive when faced with charges that ministers were involved in the Bombay financial scandal.
Mr George Fernandes, former cabinet minister and leader of the Janata Dal, whose party had promised to punish those involved in the Bofors scandal, said the judgment was 'a direct challenge to the Supreme Court'.
Most corruption reports teemmed from newspaper investigations of alleged kickbacks in a 1986 deal with Bofors, the Swedish arms manufacturer.
Bofors has become the rallying cry against the corruption that plagues daily life in India, where a bribe usually is needed to get a telephone, a job or even into school.
Sweden's ruling party voted to adopt stricter rules on weapons exports following allegations that officials of AB Bofors, Sweden's biggest arms maker, sold weapons to Iran and paid bribes to win an Indian order.
A government-ordered cleanup would have cost Bofors $60 million, more than twice its annual sales.
Asked whether Gandhi would be among those questioned, he said: "He would be, obviously." At least 640 million rupees was paid through Swiss banks to clinch the sale of Bofors howitzers to India, the charges say.
Indian newspapers on Tuesday published documents they said show Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have been personally involved in payoffs and cover-ups in the Bofors arms scandal.
The scandal heightened when customs investigators accused Bofors, a unit of Nobel Industrier Sverige AB, of helping to supply Iran with munitions for its war with Iraq.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is also inquiring into the purchase of artillery guns from the Swedish company A.B. Bofors and the purchase of submarines from the West German firm Howaldt Deutsche Werke.
A Bofors spokesman said the investigation's conclusion supported the company's assertions that it had done nothing improper in winning Sweden's largest export order ever.

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