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The former managing director of Alstom Transport India, Robert Hallett, who faces charges of corruption and bribery over a contract for the New Delhi Metro, will have his case joined to the prosecution against the British subsidiary of Alstom, at the heart of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office investigations.
Charge-sheetFollowing the preliminary hearing at Southwark Crown Court on Monday morning, Hallett is set to face a plea and management hearing alongside Alstom Network UK, a subsidiary of French industrial giant Alstom.
That hearing, at which a defendant would enter a plea, is set to take place at Southwark Crown Court on January 28. According to the charge-sheet against Hallett, he, Alstom Network UK and certain directors “corruptly” gave or agreed to give payments to “an official or officials or other agents of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd” between 2000 and 2006.
Consultancy dealTwo payments totalling €3.3 million, intended as “inducements or rewards for showing favour to the Alstom Group” for a train control and signalling system were made under the guise of “consultancy agreements.”
Hallett faces two criminal charges relating to the India case, while the company faces a total of six charges relating to India, Poland and Tunisia.
Hallett who remains an employee of Alstom, and voluntarily returned to the UK from Saudi Arabia for the case, was put on conditional bail earlier this month.
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