Casablanca Commercial Court Receives Bribery Lawsuit Against Intel

[K4M41]

Summary

“One Student, One Computer” was the promise of Senegal’s SAMA PC project. The project was first implemented in 2013 and intended to improve access to technology for Senegalese university students. 

But what started as a cooperative endeavor to support higher education in Senegal, has spiralled into a lawsuit filed by American IT and e-learning company AAIM against tech giant and microprocessor manufacturer, Intel. The lawsuit submitted to the Casablanca Commercial Court alleges that Intel Corporation is guilty of fraud, bribery, and antitrust violation. 

 

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" Intel ultimately failed to pay the small New York based company for the work they did. However, not only did they fail to pay, Intel allegedly also created a dummy entity in Senegal, who Intel “paid” for the services which were actually performed by AAIM. "

 

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I am not sure if this is going to be noticed but if the allegations are found to be true, it is bad. Not the right time for intel to have their reputation tarnished. I would love to know the community's and maybe the LMG team's opinion about this.

 

Sources

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/06/343138/casablanca-commercial-court-receives-bribery-lawsuit-against-intel

[cj09beira]

interesting, really sounds like a intel thing to do considering their history.

 

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Not the right time for intel to have their reputation tarnished.

intel doesn't have any good reputation to tarnish, unless people are ignorant of the plethora of anti trust anti consumer practices they partake in.

[CTR640]

Those scums never learn and they refuse to learn. Nothing suprising.

[Jtalk4456]

I am giving benefit of the doubt until I see more info. While I don't believe they are above doing scummy stuff to make money, this seems so blatantly illegal that they had to know they would get caught for this and PR would be terrible. It doesn't seem like the risk of this press, let alone any actual conviction would be worth the money they got here

[Brooksie359]

This seems very odd to me. Yeah I know Intel has done some shady stuff but most of it was antitrust and bribery. From the way it is described it sounds like they didn't pay people for the work they did. I'm sorry but I find this highly doubtful as Intel really has no reason to do something so stupid. If it was some elaborate scheme I could believe it but the way they portray it sounds super odd it me. 

[thechinchinsong]

Not the best for Intel's image, but lets remember its innocent until proven guilty.

[Roswell]

That news link is highly suspect… Morocco has an authoritarian regime that oversees their press. It’s basically like you’re linking a story from North Korea’s state run news site and claiming it as a legitimate story.

 

There’s literally zero other Google results for this, so I doubt it’s real.

[Master Disaster]

8 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:

I am giving benefit of the doubt until I see more info. While I don't believe they are above doing scummy stuff to make money, this seems so blatantly illegal that they had to know they would get caught for this and PR would be terrible. It doesn't seem like the risk of this press, let alone any actual conviction would be worth the money they got here

Large companies have teams of accountants and lawyers whose job is solely to work out whether doing illegal things would cost them less than doing the right thing, its called loss adjusting. If its cheaper to do the illegal thing then pay a fine they'll do just that.

 

You gotta understand, their business reputation doesn't affect sales as much as you would think. Most of their money comes from datacenters and OEMs who sign long term contracts for parts and on the consumer side, most people buying Intel CPUs will never hear about this lawsuit.

 

If they stand to make $100M from ripping someone off and the potential fine if they get caught is only $10M its a no lose for them.

[WolframaticAlpha]

11 hours ago, K4M41 said:

Summary

“One Student, One Computer” was the promise of Senegal’s SAMA PC project. The project was first implemented in 2013 and intended to improve access to technology for Senegalese university students. 

But what started as a cooperative endeavor to support higher education in Senegal, has spiralled into a lawsuit filed by American IT and e-learning company AAIM against tech giant and microprocessor manufacturer, Intel. The lawsuit submitted to the Casablanca Commercial Court alleges that Intel Corporation is guilty of fraud, bribery, and antitrust violation. 

 

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I am not sure if this is going to be noticed but if the allegations are found to be true, it is bad. Not the right time for intel to have their reputation tarnished. I would love to know the community's and maybe the LMG team's opinion about this.

 

Sources

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/06/343138/casablanca-commercial-court-receives-bribery-lawsuit-against-intel

Most probably fake. Intel has f*ckloads of money, they wouldn't do this. Also the source is shit.

[Master Disaster]

14 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

Intel has f*ckloads of money, they wouldn't do this.

I'm sorry but what? Apple is the richest company on Earth yet they still use child and slave labour (allegedly), Google get fined every other week for doing some kind of shady shit and MS have had to fight antitrust lawsuits in the past while they were the richest company on Earth.

 

The more money you have, the easier it is to get away with doing shady shit to get even more.

[Video Beagle]

yeah, lets go to the tech forum for their opinion on a court case about international business laws and financing. This will go well.

[WolframaticAlpha]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Large companies have teams of accountants and lawyers whose job is solely to work out whether doing illegal things would cost them less than doing the right thing, its called loss adjusting. If its cheaper to do the illegal thing then pay a fine they'll do just that.

 

You gotta understand, their business reputation doesn't affect sales as much as you would think. Most of their money comes from datacenters and OEMs who sign long term contracts for parts and on the consumer side, most people buying Intel CPUs will never hear about this lawsuit.

 

If they stand to make $100M from ripping someone off and the potential fine if they get caught is only $10M its a no lose for them.

This is not shady shit. This is criminal shit. Tell me how many times have these companies broken criminal law? (apple use of child labour is 'Alleged)

[Master Disaster]

53 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

This is not shady shit. This is criminal shit. Tell me how many times have these companies broken criminal law? (apple use of child labour is 'Alleged)

Do you follow tech news at all?

 

Apple use of child and Uighar muslim labour in China is not some wild conspiracy theory, we know its happening, Apple have just never admitted it (and you wouldn't expect them to either). Heck a few years back there was a story about Tim Cook personally overseeing the contracts and actually visiting the factories where its happening. IIRC he claimed he had no idea the factory was using modern slavery and said Apple would stop using them as a supplier but that was only after he got caught.

 

Microsoft spent a decade defending themselves to the courts against claims of anti competitive practices. Fun fact, MS lost and Gates was actually ordered to split Microsoft up by the courts. That never happened.

 

A few years back VW & Audi were prosecuted and fined for faking car emissions tests.

 

Google get fined by the EU for breaking some law at least 3 times a year (or it at least seems like it).

 

Valve spent 2 years defending themselves in Australian court because they refused to abide by Aussie consumer protection standards.

 

Even right now Apple & Epic are fighting in court over Apples refusal to allow consumer choice on their platform.

 

And that's just the stuff we know about.

[WolframaticAlpha]

Apple's thing is alleged.

 

Rest is either non criminal(civil dispute) or criminal by non-tech company

[Master Disaster]

3 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

Apple's thing is alleged.

 

Rest is either non criminal(civil dispute) or criminal by non-tech company

Yeah, because the surpreme court is often used to settle a civil case between the, at the time, biggest tech company on Earth and the US Government. /S

 

Edit - FTR I never said this behaviour was exclusive to tech companies, literally all corporations do it. They look at the cost of doing it properly vs the cost of doing it illegally and the potential fine. If the second is cheaper then fuck it, there a chance they won't get caught at all and all that extra is pure bank for the CEOs next bonus.

 

Capitalism at its finest.

[SansVarnic]

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