ISIS have lately attempted to resurge. At such a time, reports have emerged stating that Ericsson employees were paying bribes to ISIS terrorists in an attempt to gain access to the markets.
Ericsson, the Swedish telecom behemoth, has revealed that workers in Iraq paid bribes to traverse particular highways in 2019, in violation of company policy. According to Ericsson, it's impossible to discount out the possibility that some of the bribes went to ISIS. Their CEO revealed this week that the company may have paid off extremists "in an effort to gain access to the market."
The shares of the company dropped as a result of the announcement. Although paying for access in terrorist-infested nations is common, funding ISIS outright is a major humiliation for the firm.
via Reuter
This occurred while ISIS was still in control of sections of northwestern Iraq, and entrance to the Mosul area would have been difficult without paying a fee.
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