lesotho: German company fined for bribery

A German engineering company was fined 10.65 million maloti ($1.4m) by a Lesotho court on Tuesday after being found guilty of paying bribes in a massive water project. The Lesotho High Court found the firm, Lahmeyer International, guilty of paying bribes totalling more than five million maloti ($670 000) to the former chief executive officer of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) from 1992 to 1997.