Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption

UK court sanctions fines after firm admits using agents across world to bribe officials to land high-value contractsAirbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, is to pay a record £3bn in penalties after admitting it had paid huge bribes on an “endemic” basis to land contracts in 20 countries.Anti-corruption investigators hailed the result as the largest ever corporate fine for bribery in the world after judges declared that the corruption was “grave, pervasive