Daimler, the German carmaker, this week agreed to pay $185m in civil and criminal fines under the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement with US prosecutors following allegations that it engaged for years in an elaborate bribery scheme in 22 countries.
The US Department of Justice considers fighting bribery one of its top law enforcement priorities, and the Daimler case was the latest in a string of corporate settlements that underlined how aggressively prosecutors are pursuing such cases.
But a close look at hundreds of pages of court records show that the maker of Mercedes-Benz was never formally charged with paying bribes, though two of its subsidiaries were.
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