Reuters Staff
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) is in talks with
German prosecutors to end an investigation into the sale of Eurofighter jets to
Austria in exchange for a settlement of between 70 million and 80 million euros
($85 million to $98 million), a German newspaper reported.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, citing unnamed sources close to
Airbus, said the talks could lead the state prosecutor’s office in Munich to
drop its inquiries into the 2003 sale of 15 planes to Austria for about 1.7
billion euros.
Airbus declined to comment on the report on Sunday, while
the Munich prosecutor’s office was not available to comment.
The newspaper report followed an Airbus statement on
Saturday in which the company said it was talking to Munich prosecutors about
“the potential termination of the investigation”.
The company had also announced on Saturday that it had
been ordered to pay 104 million euros in fines over a missile sale to Taiwan in
1992.
($1 = 0.8201 euros)
Reporting by Douglas Busvine; Editing by David Goodman
Original post: reuters.com
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