{"id":190724,"date":"2009-10-31T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/update-on-saab-bribery-donations-in-korea\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T11:28:00","slug":"update-on-saab-bribery-donations-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/update-on-saab-bribery-donations-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Saab Bribery Donations in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The allegations are rather different from the run of the mill bribery cases, where someone pays a government official to buy their products.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is alleged that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4328708&amp;c=AIR&amp;s=TOP\">Saab paid bribes to get information on Korea&#8217;s indigenous fighter program<\/a>, so as better to compete for business.<\/p>\n<p>SAAB is denying this.<\/p>\n<p>The core of the allegations is that the president of the Security Management Institute (<span>SMI<\/span>), a private research company, was invited to a trade seminar in Sweden, and that SAAB covered his expenses, to the tune of $17,200.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m just confused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/saabs-south-korea-offices-raided-in.html\">Earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The allegations are rather different from the run of the mill bribery cases, where someone pays a government official to buy their products. Instead, it is alleged that Saab paid bribes to get information on Korea&#8217;s indigenous fighter program, so as better to compete for business. SAAB is denying this. The core of the allegations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,1008,1120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-far-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}