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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A former Coca-Cola boss in the UK on Thursday avoided jail despite taking more than \u00a31.5 million (R29 million) in bribes in return for channeling lucrative contracts to favoured companies.<\/p>\n

Noel Corry, 56, provided companies with confidential information to give them an advantage over rivals when bidding for electrical services contracts for bottling plants in the UK.<\/p>\n

In return, he received payments through “bogus” contracts for work at Coca-Cola Enterprises that was never carried out, or overpaying for work done and pocketing the difference, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

At London’s Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, he was given a 20-month suspended sentence, while two directors of the other companies involved in the scheme, which ran between 2004 and 2013, were each given a 12-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n

“Corry had established a corrupt culture in the procurement exercise, awarding contracts to those companies whose senior managers were prepared to bribe him for doing so,” said Alistair Dickson of the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n

“Coca-Cola Enterprises were wholly unaware of Corry’s corrupt actions to enrich himself.”<\/p>\n

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