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Friday, August 13, 2010

SEC settles tobacco charges

WASHINGTON - Two American tobacco companies are paying almost $30 million to settle charges that they bribed foreign officials to get lucrative overseas tobacco sales contracts.

The companies, Universal Corp. of Richmond, Va., and Alliance One International of Morrisville, N.C., faced civil and criminal charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department, the government said Friday.
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