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Ericsson beats U.S. shareholder lawsuit over bribery disclosures
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ericsson logo is seen at its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden June 14, 2018. REUTERS/Olof Swahnberg//File Photo
(Reuters) – Swedish telecoms company Ericsson (BS:) beat a lawsuit by U.S. shareholders on Wednesday, when a federal judge ruled it did not mislead investors about its compliance with U.S. anti-bribery laws.
The lawsuit filed by a Boston-based pension fund claimed that Ericsson had overstated the extent to which it had eliminated the use of bribes after it settled corruption allegations made by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
U.S. District Judge William Kuntz in Brooklyn, New York, wrote that Ericsson had issued “ubiquitous warnings” to investors raising “the possibility of future compliance failures” after the agreement.
An Ericsson spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.
The lawsuit was filed in March 2022, after the company’s stock dropped sharply following allegations by the DOJ that Ericsson was in breach of a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for failing to fully disclose details of its operations in Iraq. The lawsuit sought damages for investors who bought Ericsson American Depositary Shares between April 27, 2017 and March 1, 2022.
Ericsson agreed to pay $206 million and plead guilty in March for violating the DPA agreement.
Under the conditions of the 2019 DPA, Ericsson paid more than $1 billion to resolve a series of corruption probes, involving bribery allegations in China, Vietnam and Djibouti, and agreed to cooperate with the department for ongoing investigations.
The case is In re: Telefonaktiebolaget Ericsson Securities , No. 22-1167, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.
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