The company Idemia France a accepted last Friday in Paris to pay a une fine of 15.5 million euros to obtain the abandonment of an investigation into the corruption of a public official in Angola.

Idemia d& France est issue de la fusion “Oberthur Technologies (OT) and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho) . The 15.5 million euros fine was accepted as part of a Public Interest Judicial Agreement (Cjip), signed on June 2 between the company and the Paris prosecutor's office, and validated Friday by the president of the court. In reality, the case dates back to February 2011, when the financial brigade received an anonymous letter accusing Oberthur Technologies (OT) of fraudulent practices. Confiées à la Brigade de répression de la délinquance économique (BRDE), les investigations avaient conduit en juin 2019 à la mise en examen d' Idemia pour corruption active d' agent public étranger et laundering of this offense, for acts alleged against OT during 2007 to 2011 that the company recognized

According to the information, the investigation uncovered a transfer of some 855,000 dollars made in 2009 from this account to the governor of the BNA.

L' fine was calculated taking into account minority factors such as the recognition of the facts, the adoption of corrective measures (with the In November 2011, the trustee activity (sold to Oberthur Fiduciaire) and the active cooperation of Idemia, explained Deputy Prosecutor Céline Ducournau at the hearing