WalMart, the world’s mega retailer that pays its workers poverty level wages, aggressively bribed Mexican officials to get the necessary permits to open more than a dozen supermarkets across the country, the New York Times reported Tuesday, according to rawstory.com.
The newspaper said its own investigation had identified 19 store sites that were the target of bribery, and detailed one case in which more than $200,000 in bribes was paid to build a supermarket near famed Aztec ruins.
“The Times’ examination reveals that Wal-Mart de Mexico was not the reluctant victim of a corrupt culture that insisted on bribes as the cost of doing business. Nor did it pay bribes merely to speed up routine approvals.
“Rather, WalMart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited,” it said.
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