In a multinational case, engineering giant John Wood Group PLC and its Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. subsidiary have reached agreements with U.S., U.K. and Brazilian government agencies to pay a total of $177 million to settle bribery charges related to a contract to design a gas-to-chemicals project in Brazil, Wood Group has announced.
For its part of the coordinated multi-agency probe, the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced on June 25 that Amec Foster Wheeler had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on that date in federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y. and agreed to pay about $18.4 million to settle the U.S. charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.