<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc4621d7-abc3-4bb2-949d-7ef5a9623765/316CEBF3-666F-4EC2-9DCC-38F92CAF0180/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thisislondon.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do"><H2>It’s better to pay a £900m fine than suffer a worse fate</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do"> <A href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/related-9434-articles-reviews/Siemens+AG/related.do" title="More on Siemens AG..." class="inform" linkindex="67" set="yes">Siemens</A> was ordered to pay unprecedented penalties just before Christmas in both <A href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/related-2456-articles-reviews/Germany/related.do" title="More on Germany..." class="inform" linkindex="68" set="yes">Germany</A> and the <A href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/related-229-articles-reviews/United+States/related.do" title="More on United States..." class="inform" linkindex="69">United States</A>,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do">pleased to have come through a two-year bribery investigation intact </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do"> dawn raids on the company's offices in Germany and the homes of senior executives in November 2006.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do">If Siemens had been convicted of bribery, it would have lost public-sector contracts in many parts of the world</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656516-details/It%C2%92s+better+to+pay+a+%C2%A3900m+fine+than+suffer+a+worse+fate/article.do">It avoided this by pleading guilty</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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