A former Coca-Cola manager has admitted taking more than 1.5 million dollars in bribes in exchange for helping favored companies win lucrative contracts.
Boulting Group, Tritec Systems, and Electron Systems received confidential and sensitive data from Noel Corry.
They had an advantage over their rivals in contract bids.
The companies involved were fined and Corry was given a suspended sentence.
Gary Haines, the former director of Tritec Systems, was given a 20-month suspended sentence and Peter Kinsella, the former contract manager at Boulting, was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
They were ordered to work 200 hours.
Boulting Group and two other companies were fined for failing to prevent bribes.
Corry was forced to sell his family home and hand over his pension pot to repay Coca-Cola, after his nine-year scam was discovered.
Corry received payments for work that was never done, or had the firm pay more than the real price for the work, according to prosecutors.
Boulting was said to have benefited from at least 950,000 from Corry, while Tritec Systems and Electron Systems paid more than 600,000 in bribes by the time he was discovered.
The court heard that the bribes to Corry came from a shell company he controlled through his family members or his brother-in-law.
Corry was president of Droylsden FC, a football club where he received hundreds of thousands of pounds in sponsorship.
He arranged for Manchester United season tickets to be paid for by companies he favored.
Kinsella admitted three counts of corruption and two counts of conspiracy to bribe.
The failure to prevent bribery was admitted by the WABC. The two companies pleaded guilty to corruption and failure to prevent bribes.
The corrupt procurement culture was established by Corry and he awarded contracts to companies that were prepared to bribe him.
The contracting companies should have had in place compliance measures which would have prevented the payments, he said.
The Metropolitan Police said thatCorry, Haines and Kinsella worked hard to present themselves as reliable and genuine businessmen.
This is the first time the Met has charged and convicted a company for failing to prevent bribes.
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