Ex-SAP exec sent down for 22 months after bribing govt IT officials A former regional director of SAP has been sentenced to 22 months in jail – plus three years of supervised release – for greasing the palms of government IT buyers. Vicente Eduardo Garcia, 65, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty in August to bribing Panamanian government officials to secure a contract for one of the company's …
What a coincidence, I've just finished doing my mandatory corruption course, as I deal with suppliers.
I'm not even allowed to accept a Christmas bottle of wine from my telecoms account manager, which is a bit of a shame.
I am going to go right ahead and assume that it's only the little guys, like Sr. Garcia and I that these rules apply to.
I've been in that situation. Company policy was 100% cast iron that no-one could accept gifts of any kind; then I found out that one of the execs had gone away on holiday and when he and his family got back, they had a brand new kitchen. I'm told that it cost about £5,000 and that was in the days that a 2 bedroom house sold for £19,000.
Most recently, I'm in a situation where someone appears to have done a backhand deal that means the place I work at is paying for the licences that are being actually used by another business that the FD has a relationship with. I queried this, but the issue is being swept under the carpet; and I suspect that because I keep querying why they tolerate this, my services may not be required much longer.
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