Aircraft
Embraer Admits Illicit Payments for Military Sales
Company will pay fines to US and Brazilian authorities for the corrupt supply of Super Tucanos to Dominica and EMB-145s to India.
Three EMB-145 turboprop airliners were converted in India for the AWACS mission. (Photo: Neelam Mathews)
Three EMB-145 turboprop airliners were converted in India for the AWACS mission. (Photo: Neelam Mathews)

Embraer has agreed to pay some $205 million to settle corruption charges involving sales of military and civil airplanes to four customers. The agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Brazil’s Ministério Público Federal (MPF) and the Brazilian Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) end a six-year graft probe that found that Embraer paid bribes and created false records to conceal illicit payments. But further action could be taken against Embraer in India, concerning the acquisition of three EMB-145 aircraft for conversion to the AWACS role, suggested the Indian defense minister.