A committee of MPs has strongly criticised BAE Systems for dragging its feet over a £29.5m fine it was ordered to pay the people of Tanzania in February 2010.
The committee urged the company to pay the amount in full within weeks, and raised the possibility of taking the matter back to court if the payment wasn't made.
Last year, BAE was fined for concealing payments of $12.4m to a marketing adviser in Tanzania in connection with a radar deal in 2002. The company agreed with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to make the ex-gratia payment to the Tanzanian people.
The UK's Department for International Development (DfID) and the Tanzanian government drew up plans on how to spend the money, which was to be invested in education. Under the plans, the money would be spent on 4.4m school textbooks, 192,000 desks, 1,196 teachers' houses and 2,900 pit latrines. The purpose and delivery of these items could easily be audited.--by http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Final the money was paid and up to this moment, nothing can be counted on how the money was used, no text books, no desks, no teachers houses, no pit ltrines, where the money went it is misteriously unknow. it is now over a year and half, and still waiting for our children money to come
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