Multinational Trials

Acres Trial

• Rex versus Acres International Limited, Judgement delivered in the High Court of Lesotho on 13 September 2002
• The Crown versus Acres International Limites, Hight Court of Lesotho
• Kasrils Welcomes Lesotho Bribery Sentence, 29 October 2002
• Patricia Adams, The Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate: Combating Corruption in Multilateral Development Banks, to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 25 May 2004
• Multinational Monitor July/August 2004
• Agence France Presse, Canadian firm loses appeal against Lesotho bribery conviction, 15 August 2003
• David Pallister, Western firms face bribery blacklist, 19 March 2004
• Acres International Limited v. The Crown, Court of Appeal of Lesotho, 15 August 2003
• Rex v. Acres International Limited, High Court of Lesotho, 14 June 2002
• In re: Notice of debarment proceedings - Acres International Limited, Case No 18, 21 August 2001
• Maclearn, M; Another watershed for acres; Canadian Business.com, 15 September 2003

Impregilo SpA

• Italian firm charged with bribery in Lesotho, 3 March
• David Pallister, Lesotho corruption trail leads abroad, 20 June 2003

Lahmeyer

• Crown v. Lahmeyer International GmbH, High Court of Lesotho, 6 March 2001

Schneider Electri

• Electrical Company Must Stand Trial in Lesotho Bribery Case, 12 December 2003
• Leading Company Implicated in Lesotho Bribery Case 11 November 2003

Spie

• SAPA, Water Scheme Bribery Trial Postponed, 15 October 2003
• Saeed Shah, Amec Challenged Over Alleged Link to African Bribery Trial, 10 February 2003

General

• Magreal, C; Lesotho trial aims to end corruption culture, Mail & Guardian, 29 June 2001
• News24.com; German company fined for bribery, 26 August 2003
• Blustein, P; Big firms accused of bribery in dam project; Washington Post, 13 August 1999
• Evans, R and Hencke, D; A blind eye; The Guardian, 10 June 2003
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project; Minutes of Meeting of LHWP Participants; Pretoria, 17 November 1999
• Hoover, R; Global company fined R10m for Lesotho bribery; International Rivers Network, 25 Febuary 2004
• Business Day, Lesotho ''Will Continue to Fight Graft'' 10 September 2004
• Guido Penzhorn, Comments on the Current Lesotho Bribery Prosecutions, Presentation before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 21 July 2004
• Government Commended on Corruption Bust in Water Project
  16 March 2004
• Linda Ensor, Lahmeyer fine raised for bribery in Lesotho, 8 April, 2004
• Peter Eigen, Prosecute Multi-Nationals who Bribe Government 17 May 2005
• SAPA, Lesotho to Prosecute Third Company 28 August 2003