Airbus SE executives raised concerns about fees paid to a number of middlemen working with its helicopter division, led at the time by the company’s current chief executive, according to internal documents related to Airbus’s record $4 billion bribery settlement in January. In that settlement, U.S., U.K, and French prosecutors alleged Airbus inappropriately paid middlemen to secure orders at its commercial-aviation and its defense and space units. Internal documents submitted to investigators in the probe and reviewed by...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 15, 2020 12:00 UTC